Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Patience Watson One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

heres-johnny-1 It is so rare to be so lost within a movie and it's world during a viewing that it's an outright privilege to get to watch Pather Panchali. From beginning to end, it is a perfectly told and emotional story about a family's struggle and tragedy from a life of poverty in rural Bangladesh. It's a simple story, a gentle one, with universally relatable characters and relationships between them that anyone in the world can relate to.This film and trilogy is one of a kind. Pather Panchali is a demonstration of what a movie can actually be, of how great a film can be. I don't feel that I can overhype this film at all. It's an experience, it has characters that you deeply care about even though they can also grate on your nerves in a very human way. Of all the films I have ever seen, I can only think of two other films that have reached the same heights of cinema as this. I saw this for the first time over ten years ago and its imagery and story has haunted me ever since.

valadas A real masterpiece indeed in every aspect: atmosphere, interpretation, dramatic stoutness of the plot and a remarkable gallery of authentic characters. In West Bengal (India) a poor family lives in a rural village: father, mother, son, daughter and an old almost invalid aunt. Money is scarce and debts pour. The father decides to leave for the city to get a better job. Daily life is shown in a very realistic detailed way. Everything is really dramatic and tragedy ends by falling upon the rest of the family, pushing the man who had come back meanwhile to leave the village and head for the city with his family. This is one of those movies you must decidedly not to miss.

vishaltelangre Rating it 10/10, or rating scale is useless to tell how great this work is!Overwhelming. Eloquent. Deep. People say this movie as a Indian version of Bicycle Thieves. But I would say this is more than that, very different and captures the emotions in the extremities of life, everything feels so real that one could imagine about (something similar as in Premchand's Godaan novel). This is the first movie of Satyajit Ray I have watched yet, and I must watch all of his lifelong work. And this feeling indulges my mind to read Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay's original novel.Superb acting by every character, so strong, so real! Still camera, use of natural lights and shadows, makes you think how intelligent was the mind behind it. Sensitive story plot, and attention to every minute detail is phenomenal.This movie is a remarkable and classic story which tells both how beautiful and worst is life in very bad and in extremely bad situations, and flows in different ages as time passes.I can watch it for tens of times if I could make time for it!As a note, Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon Movie is not so different, but Pather Panchali feels at home and heart touching.A recommended one for classical movie lovers.

KobusAdAstra 'Pather Panchali' is an impressive film about life in a poor part of Indian subcontinent, where the people live a very basic life, and every day is a struggle.Meet the small Bengal family whose life is depicted in the film: Hardworking, conscientious mother, Sarbojaya; her dreamer husband Harihar, who writes stories that don't get used; their first-born, a girl, Burga who nicks fruit from the neighbour's orchards. And then the young boy, Apu, who goes to school and gets to learn to read and write. Living with the family at times is their elderly aunt.At insistence from his wife, Harihar gets a job, but only gets paid after three months. His wife is concerned about the lack of maintenance work at their home, but his reply always is that there is no money. But, incidentally, enough money for his tobacco. He eventually realizes that he must increase his income and leaves to find work in a large town.Months go by without a word from him, the family runs out of food and the wife has to sell her precious silverware to get food. When the husband eventually arrives back home, he was in for an unpleasant surprise...The film has many elements: it highlights the huge difference between how men and women were treated. A boy gets preferential treatment, gets to go to school and gets better food than his female siblings. The girls stay at home to assist their mothers with housekeeping chores. The film also effectively shows the dynamics between the poor and the very poor.This kind of subject matter can easily be sentimentalized, but it is handled with restraint. The natural cast is amazing, the black and white cinematography and sound track excellent. A masterpiece. 9/10.