Pather Panchali 1955

Critics score:
97 / 100

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Bosley Crowther, New York Times: There are lovely little threads in the strange fabric. It's a film that takes patience to be enjoyed. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Satyajit Ray's beautiful first feature. Read more

Pauline Kael, New Yorker: Beautiful, sometimes funny, and full of love, it brought a new vision of India to the screen. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: This is the kind of motion picture that will stay with you for hours, or perhaps even days, after you've left the theater, and that's a rare characteristic for any movie. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The great, sad, gentle sweep of The Apu Trilogy remains in the mind of the moviegoer as a promise of what film can be. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: One of the legendary debuts in the history of film -- deservedly so. Read more

TIME Magazine: It is a pastoral poem dappled with the play of brilliant images and strong, dark feelings, a luminous revelation of Indian life in language that all the world can understand. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: A masterpiece, inarguably. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Film justly won the 'most human document award' at the 1956 Cannes Film Fest, unveiling a mature film talent in director Satyajit Ray. Read more