Once Upon a Time in Calcutta
New Directors/New Films 2022
April 20 - 1, 2022
The memory of Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore looms over this intimate drama of contemporary urban life, an intricately constructed mosaic of people dealing with loss and questions of basic human morality.
Featuring a special video introduction from Aditya Vikram Sengupta!
The memory of Bengali poet, social reformer, and presiding artistic spirit Rabindranath Tagore looms over Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s sprawling yet intimate drama of contemporary urban life, an intricately constructed mosaic of people dealing with loss, economic disparity, industrial growth, and questions of basic human morality. Working with consummate Turkish cinematographer Gökhan Tiryaki (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia), Sengupta employs an elegant compositional aesthetic to his story of a grieving mother and former actress (the magnetic Sreelekha Mitra, in a richly inhabited performance) whose attempts at overcoming tragedy and moving on are consistently complicated by the needs of others in her orbit. Sengupta presents the irresolvable contradictions of modern life with clarity and invention, depicting a society in constant flux.
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