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Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. Director Richard Attenborough's respect for Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) is revealed in this film's opening statement: "No man's life can be encompassed in one telling. There is no way to give each year its allotted weight, to include each event, each person who helped to shape a lifetime.
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Our review: Parents say ( 7 ): Kids say ( 20 ): Weighing in at more than three hours, this amazing biopic is a must-see for families with an interest in history or civil rights. Ben Kingsley is brilliant as Gandhi, and the cast includes such luminaries as Sir John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Martin Sheen, Roshan Seth, Trevor Howard, and Edward Fox.
Film Review. R ichard Attenborough does a pretty good job of out-doing David Lean in the sprawling epic stakes with this lavish magnum opus, his ambitious account of the life of his personal hero Mahatma Gandhi. Attenborough had long hankered after making this film and it took him twenty years to realise his life's ambition, with financial ...
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- Abhrajyoti Chakraborty
''Gandhi,'' which opens today at the Ziegfeld Theater, is most effective when it is being most plain and direct, like Gandhi himself. In Ben Kingsley, the young Anglo-Indian actor who plays the title role, the film also has a splendid performer who discovers the humor, the frankness, the quickness of mind that make the film far more moving than ...
Some historians have argued that Gandhi is too much of a hagiography but, even if the movie presents the title figure in a decidedly favorable light, it makes up for any factual inaccuracies with the depth and power of its characterization. Attenborough’s direction in concert with John Briley’s screenplay and Ben Kingsley’s titanic ...
