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Irfan Khan,
Irfan Khan,
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Asif Kapadia,
Asif Kapadia
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: Miramax
: Foreign
: 87 min.
: Hindi
: English, Spanish
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A cold-blooded warrior strives to become a man of peace in this strikingly photographed drama from writer and director Asif Kapadia. Lafcadia (Irfan Khan) is a steel-nerved professional soldier who works as a lawman for the corrupt leader of a local political regime (Anupam Shyam). Lafcadia is valuable to the tyrant for his ability to kill without mercy, but when he's sent with his compatriots to massacre the people of a small village who've been delinquent in paying their taxes, Lafcadia is struck by a vision of a young girl standing on a mountain overlooking the carnage. The vision startles Lafcadia into a change of heart, and he pledges to lay down his weapon and never kill again. However, the tyrant isn't happy with Lafcadia's decision, and retaliates by putting his son (Puru Chhibber) under arrest and burning his home to the ground. Undaunted, Lafcadia sets out on a quest in the Himalayas to find the child from his vision, with the tyrant's ruthless enforcers on his trail. In time, Lafcadia is joined in his search by a fugitive (Noor Mani) on the run from a prison work gang. The Warrior was shot in two versions, one in the Hindi language and one in English. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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by talltale
May 27, 2006 - 11:07 AM PDT
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Every so often a movie is so much better than you expect that you want to pull out all the stops in recommending it. I will thus refrain and leave maybe one "stop" unpulled. Otherwise THE WARRIOR is a must-see: for its ravishing beauty, its ability to tell a strong story economically yet fully, performances (even from some novice actors) that are pitch-perfect and perhaps most surprising, its director's knack for knowing exactly how to deal with violent scenes so that they make their necessary point but never descend into the sleazy, gratuitous or pandering that most movies dealing with killing and revenge manage all too well. That this is director/co-writer Asif Kapadia's first full-length film makes it one for the books (he's done four short films previously).
Kapadia is British by birth but heavily influenced by his family's Indian subcontinent culture, and his film--watch the "Making Of" special feature for some fascinating background--is one of the most genuinely international I've yet encountered. Talk about a collaborative effort! An eastern "western" heavy with symbolism--all of which works without undue pushing--the movie deals with the uses of violence, power and honest humility. It is graced with a fine screenplay (co-written by Tim Miller) and a production design that looks authentic and lived-in. But then everything from costumes to music, editing, sets, sound and more offers an array of talent working at the top of their game. Oh-oh: did I just pull that last stop? Screw it: DON'T MISS THIS MOVIE! |
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