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Returning from the River to River, 2010

I am back from spending the weekend in Florence River to River, the beautiful festival of Indian cinema.

Very beautiful films of Satyajit Ray, the Bengali director is focusing this year on which the retrospective. For me, his masterpiece remains the Apu Trilogy, but the three films that I saw at the festival are equally memorable, too bad they can not see The chess players that will be screened on Wednesday.

The first of the three, Charul ( The lonely wife), is the story of Charu, a wife is always too lonely, devoted to reading and embroidery, which looks at the world with his binoculars from behind the window. The arrival of his cousin's husband subtly upset the family atmosphere and the dynamics between family members.

Jalsaghar ( The Music Room), the film that I was more excited, describes his passion for music of a landowner: even now his property is now falling apart, his family be destroyed and money, jewelry and silverware are not enough more to pay the expenses, let alone the musicians, it surrenders to changing times, until the end, until the last concert.

The last of the three films is Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest) , about the adventures and misadventures of four young men of Calcutta on vacation for a few days in a tribal village, "in the forest ", dealing with alcoholic evenings, contacts with local people and meetings with two modern girls of Calcutta.

Very interesting documentary Song of India by Vijay Singh on the history of independent India that is reflected in the songs of Bolloywood.

Very ironic Peeplo live, the film nominated for represent India at the Oscars 2011, which can handle a dramatic theme, the suicides of farmers in rural India, sarcastically describing with great bitterness the media, always aggressive, insensitive, greedy sensational front-page stories, and politics, unable to act, always ready to exploit and linked only to your interests.

also very nice animation for the tenth anniversary of the River to River (you can see below) and, as usual, very exciting meetings, coffees, lunches and dinners with other enthusiasts I hope to see you soon at the next opportunity.