Set in the 1930s during the rise of the independence struggles against British colonial rule, the film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. Water focuses on a relationship between one of the widows, who wants to escape the social restrictions imposed on widows, and a man who is from a lower caste and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
Special Agent Matti
If you like hard-hitting drama mixed in with sumptuous production values and fabulous acting in a stunning setting then you'll like Deepa Mehta's final Elemental Trilogy film, Water. The dilapidated temples, the flowing cloth, the river, the colours, the movements, the dusky-skinned maidens, the Bollywood heart-throbs...
And then there's the brain-food: religion, tradition, innocence, oppression, repression, true love, unrequited love... it doesn't get much better than this.
M (Moderate themes)
116 minutes (1:56 hours)
Film: 13 April 2006
