Phantom India
Louis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking Phantom India the most personal film of his career. And this extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery, as well as occasional outrage, intrigue, and joy.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Reflections in a Lens
25-07-196955mHow can you capture in the lens of a film camera the essence of a country so diverse, so variegated, and so paradoxical as India?
- Ep 2
2.A Barbarian in Madras
01-08-196955mSouthern India pretends to know nothing about the North. Its language is different, its very nature too. In Madras Louis Malle discovers a striking example of that world of opposit...
- Ep 3
3.Holy India
08-08-196955mLouis Malle finds a devotion to a spiritual life that transcends the poverty of the material one and discovers that in a country as crowded as India, religion is the one way for th...
- Ep 4
4.Shadow Without Substance
15-08-196955mDrifting at random through the numberless villages of the South, Louis Malle finds himself in a timeless, fantastic, and to a western eye, almost surrealist world. Kerala is like a...
- Ep 5
5.Invisible Frontiers
22-08-196955mAlthough officially abolished, the caste system has not ceased to exert a strong influence on Indian social life. It is not a problem of colour, race nor even of class. It is far s...
- Ep 6
6.Cults, Creeds and Clans
29-08-196955mTurning aside from the traditional India of the Hindus, Louis Malle pans his camera on to the India of forgotten tribes and tiny sects. He discovers two versions of Utopia: one, th...
- Ep 7
7.Where East Goes West
05-09-196955mBombay. It's the last lap of Louis Malle 's journey through India and already it smacks of the West. Bombay is a city on the move, in the middle of an economic boom. Parsee industr...
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