Monday, November 8, 2010

Such a Long Journey (1998)


Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Starz)

Longish story of an Indian man who unwittingly gets caught up in a money laundering scheme. He thinks he is helping and old friend with the "revolution" but instead is being used for his position as a banker. There are numerous subplots, mostly boring family drama like a son who won't go to college and a daughter who catches malaria, and these melodramas really drag down the film. In the end, some unexpected deaths occur, neither of which make much impact, and father and son are reconciled. Nice use of Bombay locations.

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