Life Goes On
- Szczegóły
- Nadrzędna kategoria: Filmy
- Kategoria: Recenzje filmowe z Guardiana
An extended inter-generational soap with more than a hint of King Lear set in the British-Asian community. It clanks and wobbles, says Xan Brooks
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday 10 March 2011
- Life Goes On
- Production year: 2009
- Country: UK
- Cert (UK): 12A
- Runtime: 120 mins
- Directors: Sangeeta Datta
- Cast: Christopher Hatherall, Girish Karnad, Mukulika Banerjee, Neerja Naik, Om Puri, Sharmila Tagore, Soha Ali Khan
Spare a thought for Dr Sanjay (Girish Karnad), a starchy suburban dad who arrives home to find his wife dead on the kitchen floor and his flowers drooping in their vase. Poor Sanjay, it transpires, is a coyly veiled King Lear in an extended inter-generational soap, set rather clankingly amid the British-Asian community. It wobbles from familial tensions to tearful reconciliations, soft-focus to slow-motion, monologues to musical numbers. The acting is so stiff and self-conscious that one is half-tempted to file the dead mum as the tale's most convincing presence. Lord knows, it's either her or the flowers.
amid: pośród
clank: brzęczeć, chrzęścić
clankingly: brzęcząco, z chrzęstem
convincing: przekonujący
coyly: nieśmiało
droop: opadać, więdnąć
extended: przedłużający się, rozwlekły
familial: rodzinny
hint: posmak
reconciliation: pojednanie
soap: opera mydlana
starchy: sztywny
tension: napięcie
transpire: wychodzić na jaw, okazywać się
veiled: zamaskowany
wobble: trząść się, chybotać, chwiać się
