Jean Renoir - 1951
Renoir in colour means brutal lighting. Really, hard, hard, probably even more with the film stock and the crazt sun and colours of India caught here. The shadows are black. Some deeply beautiful stuff here. Is this India? Yes and no; the story isn't a lot to do, but the place sure is.
The direction is more edit based, isolating charcters (from the sound of it, due to the production conditions).
The voiceover can be a little intrusicve (perhaps, again, necessary by the sound of the conditions).
As for the plot; the birth of women, here various ones seen. Ideas of the cruelty of youth, the natural cycle. Birth comes, as does death. There is a slight element of nature worship and placid acceptance, but also anger that life turns out this way. All are somehow 'flawed' in this world; disability, racial non-acceptance, not being so beautiful; but can purgatory be beautiful? I suspect Renoir wants it to be.
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