Trishna
- 2012
- UK
- 117 min
- Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
- Cast: Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Roshan Seth
- UK release: 9 March 2012
A transposition of Tess of the D'Urbervilles to modern-day India. Trishna (Pinto) falls in love with wealthy, British-raised Jay (Ahmed), but their relationship soon fractures. Hardy's themes of sexual hypocrisy and the clash of tradition and modernity make sense in this setting, but the film ultimately lacks emotional force.
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Review of reviews - Trishna
28 Feb 2012
What we said and what they said about Michael Winterbottom's Indian Thomas Hardy adaptation
We said Some of Hardy’s themes have a real resonance in this Indian setting, notably the clash between tradition and modernity, and the sexual double-standards by which Tess herself so painfully suffers, yet the film ultimately lacks the requisite…
Glasgow Film Festival: Dexter Fletcher, Wild Bill and All in Good Time
24 Feb 2012
Highlights including Trishna, The Monk and This Must Be The Place
Glasgow Film Festival is at its halfway point already, and I’ve only caught a small slice from the exploding smorgasbord that is this year’s programme (more than 200 films: your move, EIFF). But in that slice there’s been a few that are definitely worth…
Trishna
17 Feb 2012
Michael Winterbottom's bold re-imagining of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles
(15) 113 min Roman Polanski filmed Tess of the D’Urbervilles back in the late 1970s as Tess, with his then partner Nastassja Kinski in the lead role of Thomas Hardy’s heroine-cum-personification-of-nature. Here Michael Winterbottom, who’s previously…
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