Charulata

Satyajit Ray, 1964

Spine #669

Picked by 2 guests

Drama / Romance

Criterion TMDB

Directed by Satyajit Ray

Written by Satyajit Ray

Cinematography Subrata Mitra

Edited by Dulal Dutta

Cast Madhabi Mukherjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal, Gitali Roy, Subrata Sensharma, Bankim Ghosh, Dilip Bose

Picked by

Payal Kapadia director

“So one should have Ray in one’s collection of films. And Charulata is a film that taught me a lot about cinema and scene construction and... It’s just a really good film.”

Payal Kapadia

Ira Sachs director

“This film and The Soft Skin, which you also have somewhere, were both these love triangles that taught me everything I need to know about pain.”

Ira Sachs