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Calcutta: Directed by Louis Malle. With Louis Malle. With minimal narration by the director and very little context this is a kaleidoscope of stunning visuals from Calcutta, a city of 8,000,000 in the late 1960's: rich and poor, exotic and mundane, secular and religious, children and adults, animate and inanimate.
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- Documentary
- Louis Malle
- 1971-11
This most unpredictable and eclectic of filmmakers enriched cinema over a nearly forty-year career that took him from Jacques Cousteau’s watery depths (his first film was the Cousteau-codirected Oscar winner The Silent World) to the peripheries of the French New Wave (Zazie dans le métro, The Fire Within) to the vanguard of American ...
Calcutta is a 1969 French documentary film about Calcutta, directed by Louis Malle. It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. [1]
- French
- Louis Malle
- Louis Kastner
- Louis Malle
An unflinching excursion deep into the heart of Calcutta, a city in crisis, exploited then overrun by mass migration. Malle offers just spare narration while traversing an impossibly dense urban fabric, never shying away from the outcasts, colorful and musical, in the throes of terrible poverty. Review by Richard Chandler ★★★★½ 9.
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- Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF)
- Louis Malle
Calcutta. Directed by Louis Malle • 1969 • France. When he was cutting Phantom India, Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film.
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Louis Malle's 1969 documentary Calcutta is a searing snapshot of the eastern India city of Calcutta, the capital of the state of West Bengali near the border of Bangladesh (at the time a part of Pakistan).
Overview. When he was cutting "Phantom India," Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released theatrically, is at times shocking—a chaotic portrait of a city engulfed in social and political turmoil.
