Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

A Quiet, Delicate Beauty:

When David Lean's "A Passage to India" opened in 1984, some saw it as a showdown between the glory days of literate epic filmmaking and the "feel-good" ethos of the Lucas/Spielberg popcorn juggernauts. Who better than the director of "Lawrence of Arabia," "Doctor Zhivago" and "Bridge on the River Kwai" to show the film school grads how to make a movie? As always, anything burdened by such mythic expectations is bound to fail ("Phantom Menace" anyone?) Sadly, I joined the chorus of detractors lamenting... more info

ANOTHER CLASSIC IN THE LEAN (AND FORSTER) CANON.:

In his brilliant exploration of the question he ultimately posed in HOWARDS END (who shall inherit England?), E. M. Forster gifted us with A PASSAGE TO INDIA. The novel, and the movie, provide deceptively simple characters to carry Forster's views along...the arrogance of a British-dominated culture meddling where it once again does not belong; the impossible melding of certain classes and/or temperaments; and the ultimate sacrifice or tragedy that must occur in order for the madness to cease. Into the mix... more info

Worst garbage ever filmed:

For starters I remember when I first was this film when it aired on cable tv in the mid 1980's- I remember devoting serious concentration to this film only to be floored halfway through the film when I discovered the entire film is about a rape that happened to someone somewhere sometime ago.
Now get this straight- I have a B.A. in literature and was forced to read an EM Forster novel once, and it was the worst most boring piece of pretentious British trash ever invented, the absolute worst novel on the... more info

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