Water (2006) Critic Reviews
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Deftly balancing epic sociopolitical scope with intimate human emotions, all polished to a high technical gloss, Deepa Mehta's Water is a profoundly moving drama.Read the full review
Exquisite storytelling, acting and visuals.Read the full review
Water, set in 1930s India, is something pretty rare in the world of movies: an artistic muckraker. It is superb and strange at once, a discreet and self-disciplined attack dog of a movie.Read the full review
An exquisite film about the institutionalized oppression of an entire class of women and the way patriarchal imperatives inform religious belief.Read the full review
As beautiful as it is harrowing.Read the full review
The best elements of Water involve the young girl and the experiences seen through her eyes. I would have been content if the entire film had been her story.Read the full review
Mehta has created the perfect guide to this strange female world.Read the full review
A haunting and disturbing film, set in 1938, about "widow houses." Though occasionally overwrought, it emerges as life-affirming.Read the full review
Succeeds in its central goal: to turn a forgotten class of women into real, memorable human beings who deserve a different life.Read the full review
The stunning Lisa Ray, a Bollywood exile, makes one of the most beautiful widows ever to grace the screen. Vidula Javalgekar gives a memorable turn as the infirm "Auntie." But the real find is Sarala, a Sri Lankan girl who memorized dialogue in a language she does not understand and delivers it with conviction.Read the full review
