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| | 1960's Movies |
 | | Featuring the same young actors that appeared in World of Apu (stellar movie, as are all the parts of the Apu Trilogy; Pather Panchali, Aparajito, and the aforementioned), Devi concerns the follies of the very rich in India, late 19th century. |
 | | It is a truism of movies such as this that the longer you hold a single camera shot, the more meaning is imbued to the stimulus; on first viewing, the watcher may fall asleep or grow bored, on later viewings, the image takes on its full meaning and become transcendent. |
 | | In the end, the movie claims to be a meditation on the way couples tend to grow similar over time and suggests that Ullmann has taken on the mental illness of her husband through sheer sympathetic or empathetic feeling. |
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