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Date: Sat December 1 - 2012

Time: 8:00 pm

Location: Magnetic Island RSL Hall - Arcadia

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This Saturday MIFS features: 'Trishna' (MA). - A tragic relationship forms between the son of a property developer and the daughter of an auto rickshaw owner.

NB: This looks to be the LAST film that the Magnetic Island Film Society will screen unless a viable management committee is formed, so if you'd like to be part of it, simply contact LInda Wooten on 4758 1135 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Duration: 117 mins
Genre: Drama?
Director: Michael Winterbottom?
Lead actor: Freida Pinto?
Cast: Riz Ahmed, Roshan Seth, Kalki Koechl, Anurag Kashyap?
Producer: Sunil Bohra, Melissa Parmenter, Michael Winterbottom?
Screenplay: Thomas Hardy (Novel)?
Music: Amit Trivedi, Shigeru Umebayashi
Distributor: Madman Entertainment?
Language: English?Country: United Kingdom

At The Movies Review - Margaret Pomeranz: 4 stars, David: 3.5 stars.

Review by David Strattan (ABC At the Movies):

Jay, RIZ AHMED, who was raised in England, is touring Rajasthan with three friends when, in a village, he sees beautiful Trishna, FREIDA PINTO. After she and her father are injured in a road accident, Jay offers the teenager a job in one of his father's hotels. They become lovers and eventually he takes her to Mumbai where they live in a sea-front apartment.

This is the third time British director Michael Winterbottom has tackled a novel by Thomas Hardy after JUDE, based on "Jude the Obscure" and THE CLAIM, based on "The Mayor of Casterbridge". TRISHNA, though set in present-day India, is based on Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" and if you've read the book, or seen Roman Polanski's faithful 1979 adaptation, the first thing that strikes you is that Winterbottom has combined the two principal male characters - Alec, the squire who seduces Tess and Angel, the man who marries her.

They've now become Jay and, as played by Riz Ahmed, last seen on the big screen in FOUR LIONS, the character comes across as rather confused - loving and respectful one moment, dissolute and rapacious the next. Despite this character drawback, the film works because the social constraints that affected Tess seem to be still current even in today's rapidly changing India.

Freida Pinto gives a luminous performance as the girl of peasant origins who seizes a chance at happiness only to find herself used and abused. The other major asset of the film is India itself, lovingly photographed for the Scope screen by Marcel Zyskind; the landscape, with its flora and fauna, the villages, temples, towns - and the crowded streets of Mumbai - all are beautifully evoked in this visually lush melodrama.

Screening at: The Magnetic Island RSL Hall, 31 Hayles Avenue, Arcadia.Dinner Service, refreshments and bar available from 6.30pm till 8.00pm.
Screening Time: 8pm. Please be early so we may start PROMPTLY at 8.00 pm
Admission: Adults $10.00 Conc. $8.00. Members Free.


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