{"id":9927,"date":"2015-07-03T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9927"},"modified":"2015-06-30T12:13:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T17:13:58","slug":"monsoon-wedding-2001-mira-nair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9927","title":{"rendered":"Monsoon Wedding (2001, Mira Nair)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Movie #3 in our irregular Criterion Thursdays series.  <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/52\">Dazed and Confused<\/a><\/em> was #1, a Linklater link from <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9760\">Before Mondays<\/a> to Criterion Thursdays, then after a month we picked up with <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4303\">The Cranes Are Flying<\/a><\/em>.  Last time I wrote up <em>Cranes<\/em> I didn&#8217;t note the insane life-flashing-before-eyes scene, all overlapped images, when the romantic hero gets shot.  The point of the Criterion Thursdays was that I wanted to watch more new\/unseen movies but so far they&#8217;ve all been rewatches&#8230; starting slow, but maybe we&#8217;ll get there.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we last watched this pre-movieblog.  Since then we&#8217;ve seen a bunch of movies about family drama before\/during a holiday or event (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1140\">Rachel Getting Married<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1476\">A Christmas Tale<\/a><\/em> come to mind), and none of them get the balance right&#8230; conveyed chaos vs. artful filmmaking, joy vs. conflict, individual vs. group scenes.  But Mira Nair nails it, even managing to pull out a dark family secret at the last minute without upsetting the flow too badly.  Between this and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/242\">The Namesake<\/a><\/em> she seems unusually great at family dramas.<\/p>\n<p>The bride has been carrying on an affair with her boss.  Her little brother wants to sing and dance.  Her uncle used to molest the bride&#8217;s cousin and is showing interest in a new young girl.  Bride&#8217;s mom thinks nobody knows she smokes, dad is stressed out, and the wedding planner PK Dubey is fond of marigolds and falls for the family&#8217;s maid Alice.  That&#8217;s just the parts I remember.  Won the Venice Film Festival, same year as <em>Waking Life<\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3337\">Y Tu Mama Tambien<\/a><\/em>, <em>Secret Ballot<\/em> and <em>The Others<\/em> (<em>No Man&#8217;s Land<\/em> won the oscar and <em>Amores Perros<\/em> the bafta).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie #3 in our irregular Criterion Thursdays series. Dazed and Confused was #1, a Linklater link from Before Mondays to Criterion Thursdays, then after a month we picked up with The Cranes Are Flying. Last time I wrote up Cranes I didn&#8217;t note the insane life-flashing-before-eyes scene, all overlapped images, when the romantic hero gets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,13,113,621],"class_list":["post-9927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-criterion","tag-india","tag-mira-nair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9995,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927\/revisions\/9995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}