Phantom India (1969)
Louis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking Phantom India the most personal film of his career. And this extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery, as well as occasional outrage, intrigue, and joy.
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Episodes
- 1 1. Reflections in a Lens1969-07-25 · 55mHow can you capture in the lens of a film camera the essence of a country so diverse, so variegated, and so paradoxical as India?
- 2 2. A Barbarian in Madras1969-08-01 · 55mSouthern India pretends to know nothing about the North. Its language is different, its very nature too. In Madras Louis Malle discovers a striking example of that world of opposit
- 3 3. Holy India1969-08-08 · 55mLouis Malle finds a devotion to a spiritual life that transcends the poverty of the material one and discovers that in a country as crowded as India, religion is the one way for th
- 4 4. Shadow Without Substance1969-08-15 · 55mDrifting at random through the numberless villages of the South, Louis Malle finds himself in a timeless, fantastic, and to a western eye, almost surrealist world. Kerala is like a
- 5 5. Invisible Frontiers1969-08-22 · 55mAlthough officially abolished, the caste system has not ceased to exert a strong influence on Indian social life. It is not a problem of colour, race nor even of class. It is far s
- 6 6. Cults, Creeds and Clans1969-08-29 · 55mTurning aside from the traditional India of the Hindus, Louis Malle pans his camera on to the India of forgotten tribes and tiny sects. He discovers two versions of Utopia: one, th
- 7 7. Where East Goes West1969-09-05 · 55mBombay. It's the last lap of Louis Malle 's journey through India and already it smacks of the West. Bombay is a city on the move, in the middle of an economic boom. Parsee industr
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Louis MalleSelf - NarratorImages
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