Bibliograph

Court, Kino Lorber, Zeigeist Films, Memento Films ; Zoo Entertainment presents ; written and directed by Chaitanya Tamhane ; produced by Vivek Gomber

Type

Label

Court, Kino Lorber, Zeigeist Films, Memento Films ; Zoo Entertainment presents ; written and directed by Chaitanya Tamhane ; produced by Vivek Gomber

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Not rated

Main title

Court

Oclc number

914233361

Responsibility statement

Kino Lorber, Zeigeist Films, Memento Films ; Zoo Entertainment presents ; written and directed by Chaitanya Tamhane ; produced by Vivek Gomber

Runtime

116

Summary

"Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane's Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer, dubbed the 'people's poet,' is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide. His trial is a ridiculous and harrowing display of institutional incompetence, with endless procedural delays, coached witnesses for the prosecution, and obsessive privileging of arcane colonial law over reason and mercy. What truly distinguishes Court, however, is Tamhane's brilliant ensemble cast of professional and nonprofessional actors; his affecting mixture of comedy and tragedy; and his naturalist approach to his characters and to Indian society as a whole, rich with complexity and contradiction."--Container

Technique

live action

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