Lost in Criterion
Lost in Criterion
Lost in Criterion
Spine 669: Charulata
1 hour 36 minutes Posted Oct 31, 2025 at 6:24 pm.
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Satyajit Ray's Charulata (1964) is a masterpiece. We haven't seen a film that so exquisitely captures longing since Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) 500 Spines ago. In ten more years I suspect I will still be thinking about the visuals of Charulata - the swing, the bedroom window, that final pair of freeze frames - as much as I still think about, say, the camera following the cigarette in In the Mood. Absolute perfection.