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The Cloud Capped Star (1960) is ranked number 397 on the TSPDT list of the 1,000 Greatest Films.
It is yet another international TSPDT entry for bleeding heart social justice warriors, a family drama of poverty, sacrifice, tragedy and suffering.
The film was directed by Ritwik Ghatak, born in Dhaka, Bangla Desh, he had 2t director credits from 1951 to 1977. Ritwik’s other film on the TSPDT is also a sad family drama, Subarnekha (947).
Essay by Raymond Bellour on Ghatak's The Cloud Capped Star
Meghe Dhaka Tara / The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak, 1960)
I wrote about Ritik Ghatak's The Cloud-Capped Star, which I love a lot. There's a lot about how I love it, but also a little bit about western film criticism and how it gets India (as well as Japan) wrong, ignores the politics of those countries' filmmakers for an easy narrative about "spirituality."
As I said on twitter, I think filmmaking in 1950/60s India and Japan cared way more about women then 1960/70s Europe did, yet the latter gets credit for being the radical and political era.
