Feb
10
VIFF Day 9
Amal (2007, Canada, Richie Mehta)
Stories and films set in India have an immediate appeal to me. The vibrancy of the culture, an unlikely melange of just about all of the world's great faiths and peoples, and the palpable sense that this is a world consistently on the edge of chaotic dissolution, yet always able to pull itself back from the abyss, creates a universe that has within it implicit tensions between order and anarchy, faith and reason, sensuality and metaphysicism that fascinates me.
All of which is to confess that I was already predisposed to like Richie Mehta's Amal before I settled into the seat. Imagine my disappointment if Amal had not delivered the goods.
Amal (2007, Canada, Richie Mehta)
Stories and films set in India have an immediate appeal to me. The vibrancy of the culture, an unlikely melange of just about all of the world's great faiths and peoples, and the palpable sense that this is a world consistently on the edge of chaotic dissolution, yet always able to pull itself back from the abyss, creates a universe that has within it implicit tensions between order and anarchy, faith and reason, sensuality and metaphysicism that fascinates me.
All of which is to confess that I was already predisposed to like Richie Mehta's Amal before I settled into the seat. Imagine my disappointment if Amal had not delivered the goods.