United Artists
Directed by Jean Renoir
My rating: 3.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
Teenager Patricia Walters lives with her upper class British family in India. Her childhood innocence fades with the arrival of an American soldier in the years after WWII. He is searching for a new beginning and stays next door to the family with some friends. His frequent visits cause all the teenage girls to swoon, but he ends up with a pretty friend of Walters, sending her into a depressive spiral. Meanwhile, her younger brother meets a tragic end while trying to tame a cobra in the garden with a flute, causing the whole family to re-examine their lives. Filmed on location in India, it is truly one of the great color films. Poetic narration by Walters and imagery along the banks of the Ganges capture India like few films. However, it is marred by juvenile romantic adventures of teenage girls.
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