TIFF (the Toronto International Film Festival) is my very favorite of all film festivals. The studios use TIFF as a launch-pad for fall awards-season movies, so the festival has glamour and stars. At the same time, you get the opportunity to look through global windows of films you will not see anywhere else.
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The obvious memory Leena Yadav's Parched invokes - and therefore draws comparisons with - is Ketan Mehta's Mirch Masala. To begin with, their setting is the same - the dry, parched land of Kutch. It is at once sobering and stark. Mirch Masala was set in the 1940s and dealt with patriarchy in the time of colonization. In fact, colonization and patriarchy went hand in hand in Mehta's seminal film. Parched is set in present day. Or at least modern times. Women get together and ask the village head for television. In Mirch Masala, the men were astounded and terrified at the sight of a gramophone. In Parched, women own mobile phones and find innovative ways to use the phone's vibrate settings. We've come a long way. We have a long way to go. It's like time stood still and yet everything and nothing changed. Parched is a microcosm censused that throws up dark results even if what we get is a funny, light film for the most part focusing on its women, their bonding and friendship.
Late summer is slack time, and theaters have to scrounge for new movies. That may be part of it. But a quick survey of three recent films from abroad also suggests that the revolutions in the European cinema of the early '60s have subsided, the changes they brought have become standardized, and film makers on the Continent have forsaken enterprise for convention.
What it celebrates instead is the incredible lushness of an undersea life cycle just a beach away from one of the world's thirstiest regionsa land so parched that one species of cactus there reproduces only every 300 years.
One evening in February 1939, one of her friends, Susan Barnes, who was an occupational therapist, came to show her some vacation pictures she had taken in Mexico. As the film ended, Marjorie Lang said: "How movies bring the world within the four walls; I wish every shut-in could have them."
What a difference the rain has made. All the flowers look as though they had been newly bathed and had drunk deep of this unexpected moisture. I hope it extended far across the country, for I hate to see things parched and dying. Many of our early vegetables suffered, but I hope from now on the drought is broken and we can hope for a more equitable distribution of rain and sun.
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