“A part of the film is about a musician going through an existential crisis about his art. Cinema, too, is going through this crisis, even though it’s a much younger art.”
It’s the day after the premiere of The Disciple at the Venice Film Festival. How is Chaitanya Tamhane feeling? “Good,” he says over the phone, with a little-boy giggle that frequently punctuates our conversation. I’m thinking it’s a pinch-me-I-must-be-dreaming giggle. I’m also thinking “Good” is not a good-enough response for the momentousness of the occasion. Another giggle, and Chaitanya obliges with what it really was like. “It was a big day. It was surreal. To put out a film in 2020, in these times, in front of a real audience, in a real cinema hall where the lights go down and the room goes dark…” The last time he was in this scenario was in London, when he saw a bunch of films like Parasite (for the second time) and Knives Out. “The fact that the film was in Competition didn’t hurt.”
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Anu Warrier
September 5, 2020
Loved ‘Court’ though I wish it had ended when the court shuts down for the summer. I found the next 5-10 minutes superfluous. But I still enjoyed the film. Looking forward to watching this one.
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Karthik
September 5, 2020
I liked “Court” too and I agree, that allegorical ending was a little too on the nose even if it did give a peek into the life of the only other main character outside of the poet and the two lawyers.
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Vikram s
September 6, 2020
Court was excellent… Such beautiful performances, esp. Geetanjali Kulkarni as the public prosecutor who wants to close the case and move on… Liked the parts dealing with the judge’s life outside work… While it should have been cut when the screen goes dark, I did like the thing of the judge sleeping in a chair (imo, literally, Kanoon so raha hai 🙂 )
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Karthik
September 6, 2020
Kanoon so raha hai
Actually, it was more than just that. A system in peace gets disturbed and the voiceless person ends up getting punished for it. It felt like a short story summarizing the movie.
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An Jo
September 6, 2020
After JHUND, if there’s any movie I am looking out for, it is this. Chaitanya Tamhane’s next after COURT – and that it is based on classical music is the icing on the cake – CAN’T W.A.I.T.
Fine review by VARIETY..
Khayal is a traditional Hindustani musical form whose dedicatees spend decades in the hopes of perfecting their art. The performative, improvised nature of the singing, in which intonation and elisions vary from one recital to another, is dependent on the psychological state of the singer as well as the receptivity of the listeners, who are expected to recognize the nuances of each performance.
That can be an issue for “The Disciple,” since most cinema audiences don’t have the background to fully appreciate the qualities that distinguish one rendition from another. Even though, by the film’s pitch-perfect ending, attentive viewers may sense they’re able to generically perceive when a vocalist is transcendent versus when they’re uninspired, the lack of background means most of us will feel ill-equipped to make any kind of judgment on what is an important element of the movie’s DNA.
https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/the-disciple-review-1234759537/
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