Satyajit Ray Collection - Volume Three - 3-DVD Box Set ( Sadgati / Ghare-Baire / Ganashatru ) ( Deliverance / The Home and the World / An Enemy o [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - United Kingdom ]

Satyajit Ray is the master of black and white mood - what a relief from Hollywood (and indeed Bollywood). The big wide world needs to know more about directors like this. He has a handful of favourite actors who have the gift of facial expressiveness who appear in this first trilogy, telling stories of moral dilemmas that used to exercise the Western world in the Fifties - haunting in their portrayal of the Indian background to them all. Get everything you can by this genius.

The films are all made in the last ten years of Ray's career: interesting to watch, but not quite perfect. What is however a real problem is that Artificial Eye seems to have gone cheap for the subtitling. I can't judge the translations, but the English is at times appalling. Sentences are left unfinished; clearly wrong nouns or pronouns are used; sentences are grammatically incorrect. It is worst in 'The enemy of the people' but the other two films also suffer occasionally. It is inexplicable that in an attempt to bring Ray's films to a wider public, the language is completely mangled, damaging the films and thus the pleasure in watching them.

The delivery as well as the communication from the seller was perfect. However, all the DVDs turn out to be useless for me. They are Region-2-locked so I, being in Asia, can't use them. Such a waste!

Bien y a tiempo

A VOIR ,tous ces films du grand RAY ,des films sensibles et profonds ,des intrigues prenantes aux personnages touchants dans les foyers indiens où les amateurs de beaux films aimeront se plonger .