Fire

Name: Fire
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: August 22, 1997
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi

1997

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Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: August 22, 1997 | Unrated

Starring: Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi

Summary: Deepa Mehta's tender, passionate and controversial love story of two Indian women torn between their devotion to duty and their desire for love and companionship. (Zeitgeist Films)

Director: Deepa Mehta

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 104 min

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James Berardinelli

Mehta has created a pair of memorable characters who are easy to empathize with, and who gratifyingly are never transformed from flesh-and-blood individuals into mere symbols. Read full review

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In filmmaker Mehta's deft hands, the outcome is handled with power and sensitivity. [22 Aug1 997, pg.N40]

Lisa Alspector

Writer-director Deepa Mehta fuses the soap-opera elements of her plot -- which reveals one sexual secret after another of the variously betrayed, selfish, and self-actualizing members of the two couples' New Delhi household--into profound drama. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

For a film with such volatile subject matter, the performances are subdued and naturalistic. Fire burns with a rare flame. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

As a director, Mehta would do well to stop smothering her empathy in glibness (she uses the family's ancient mute grandmother as a sitcom prank), but her empathy pokes through nonetheless. Read full review

Empire David Parkinson

Audacious, yet sensitive, Fire may shock traditionalists but is the sort of film that ought to win Indian cinema a whole new audience. Read full review

Brendan Kelly

The third feature from this Indian-born writer-director... is an underwhelming effort that adds little new to the debate over arranged marriages and fails to ignite much interest in the problems faced by two frustrated New Delhi wives. Read full review

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