Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Genesis

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Jul 17, 2012, 7:44:30 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Genesis'''
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+1986 109’ col Hindi
+d/co-p/sc Mrinal Sen pc Scarabee Films (Paris),
+Mrinal Sen Prod. (Calcutta), Les Films de la
+Dreve (Brussels), Cactus Films (Zurich)
+co-pc Film Four (London), SSR (Berne)
+co-p Marie Pascale Osterrieth, Palaniappan
+Ramasamy, Eliane Stutterheim, Jean-Jacques
+Andrien co-sc Mohit Chattopadhay st Samaresh
+Bose dial Surendra P. Singh, Umashankar
+Pathik c Carlo Varini m Ravi Shankar
+lp Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Om
+Puri, M.K. Raina
+
+
+Whereas Sen’s best work derived much
+strength from being rooted in a specific time
+and place, giving historical resonances to the
+particular shapes of the conflicts he depicted,
+this international co-production mostly
+financed by European television channels is set
+in a purely symbolic and timeless space: some
+ruins in the middle of a desert. A farmer (Shah)
+and a weaver (Puri) exchange their products
+for goods provided by a regularly passing
+trader (Raina). A woman (Azmi) arrives,
+focusing the two men’s desires but also urging
+them to obtain more recompense from the
+trader. After a visit to a village fair (exuberantly
+shot with telling details reminiscent of Sen’s
+earlier work) the two men become more
+acquisitive and jealousies break out over the
+now pregnant woman who simply ups and
+leaves. As the two men fight each other, the
+trader’s men attack and enslave the workers
+again. The film closes with shots of bulldozers
+and modern machinery clearing the ground.
+Sen’s timeless parable about the genesis of
+capitalism, although acted with conviction by
+the cast, suffers from its abstraction,
+transforming the characters into stereotypes
+and reducing the complexities of history to
+simplified generalities. G. Chakravorty Spivak
+(1993) provides a postcolonial reading of the
+film.
+
+[[Film]]