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| | Amazon.com: River / Movie: Video: Nora Swinburne,Esmond Knight,Arthur Shields,Suprova Mukerjee,Thomas E. Breen,Patricia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Harriet, the daughter of the English manager of a jute mill on the banks of the Ganges; Radha, the daughter of their English neighbor whose mother was Indian; and Valerie, the daughter of a wealthy English couple whom we never meet. |
 | | THE RIVER is a key film in Renoir's career moving from "reality" to "inner truth", from the naturalism and social realism of his 30's films to the theatrical atrificially and satyrically enhanced realites that are presented in Criterion's DVD edition of "STAGE AND SPECTACLE". |
 | | Scratch the surface and "The River" becomes a metaphor on the meaning of life, or at least the Hindu concept of it -- a cycle of births and deaths. |
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