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The Expedition (1962)
As one taxi driver becomes entangled in a smuggling operation, Satyajit Ray veers The Expedition into crime thriller territory, trading out his usual psychological depth for a spiralling fatalism that pits ancestral codes of honour against deep moral corruption.
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Three Daughters (1961)
By adapting the writing of polymath Rabindranath Tagore with cinematic grace in the anthology of Three Daughters, Satyajit Ray underscores their shared humanism and lyrical artistry, meditating on the devotion, decay, and emotional transformation of women shaped by the pressures of social expectations.
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Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)
Shūji Terayama may cast his rural childhood in an array of surreal, kaleidoscopic motifs, yet this memory piece does not yield easily to nostalgia or repression, as Pastoral: To Die in the Country contemplates the unstable, self-reflexive act of reminiscence and its sublimation into art.
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