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A Passage to India has theme of a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Lean's visually appealing film frequently connects as a social satire and a mystical melodrama of transgressors looking for footholds in psychically threatening territory.
April 21, 2008
Variety
An impeccably faithful, beautifully played and occasionally languorous adaptation of E.M. Forster's classic novel.
Epic, briliantly photographed, but slow David Lean drama.
March 08, 2008
Apollo Guide
Regardless of what one thinks of David Lean and his old fashioned style, the results here - save perhaps for the casting of Alec Guinness as a Hindu professor - are exquisite.
April 24, 2008
EmanuelLevy.Com
Lean's swan song is an intelligent adaptation of Forster's complex novel about racil prejudice and sexual repression, flaunting wonderful perfromances from the two leads, Judy Davis and particularly Dame Peggy Ashcroft.
Forster's novel is one of the literary landmarks of this century, and now David Lean has made it into one of the greatest screen adaptations I have ever seen.
Lean isn't on his A-game here, but the film isn't bad.
April 17, 2008
Chicago Reader
David Lean's studied, plodding, overanalytic direction manages to kill most of the meaning in E.M. Forster's haunting novel of cultural collision in colonial India.