13.06.2024 | Frankfurt am Main
Movie
CHARULATA: The look of a woman – Priyadarshini Shanker (Wilmington)
Satyajit Ray’s Charulata (1964) is about the loneliness of a young woman whose wealthy husband is absorbed in his political and publishing projects. Charu (Madhabi Mukherjee) becomes a figure of modernity itself, insofar as her curious outward gaze becomes an inward gaze that exposes her loneliness, her self-perception and her emotional world.
Priyadarshini Shanker is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Film: CHARULATA (The Lonely Woman), India 1964, 112 min.
