A child and country were born at midnight once upon a time
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Satya Bhabha, Shahana Goswami, Rajat Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Ronit Roy, Siddarth, Seema Biswas, Shriya Saran |
Director |
Deepa Mehta |
Screenplay | Salman Rushdie, Deepa Mehta, Rutvik Oza, from the novel by Salman Rushdie |
Music | Nitin Sawhney |
Cinematography | Giles Nuttgens |
Editing | Colin Monie |
Sound formats | |
Made in | 2013 |
Produced by | David Hamilton Productions, Hamilton-Mehta Productions, Number 9 Films |
Official Site | IMDB page
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Genre | Drama |
Language | Infrequent, very mild, low impact |
Nudity | One naked clinical breast scene |
Sex | None |
Violence | Psychological impact, infrequent, torture scenes, war scenes, dead soldiers, assassination scenes |
Prejudice | Moslem/India civil war, low impact |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | Some alcohol, no abuse |
Comments | None |
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Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith Epic film is going nowhere slowly. | 10 | |
Die Burger Laetitia Pople Meesterlike wegvoering na ander tyd en plek. | 15 | |
Cape Times Stephen Farber Epic falls short. | 10 | |
Metacritic.com 17 critics | 11 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 53 critics | 11 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Though Midnight's Children is beautiful to look at and poignant in spots, its script is too indulgent and Deepa Mehta's direction, though ambitious, fails to bring the story together cohesively. | 8 | |
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics | 12 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 1005 Netizens A Satisfactory (not great) Adaptation of a Literary Masterpiece! | 11 | |
Average .. 55% | 11 |