The Big City - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)

The Big City - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)The Big City, the great Satyajit Rays first portrayal of contemporary life in his native Kolkata, follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family. With remarkable sensitivity and attention to the details of everyday working class life, Ray builds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and

and Estelle Lefébure

Mastered from the original mono tapes and pressed at RTI (Record Technology Incorporated) in California

he cannot concentrate on his writing and in frustration he throws away his beginning

Tom Williams

the great Satyajit Ray’s first portrayal of contemporary life in his native Kolkata

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who travelled to post-war Japan to expose the devastation the bomb had inflicted upon the city

all captured in Teller's trademark realistic style