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The movie follows Apu who is permitted a formal education over the gentle objections of his mother, who'd wanted him to be priest. Following his father's death, Apu leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.
It doesn't have quite the tension or quite the variety of mood but it has a special brooding quality and a more explicit conflict between East and West.
It is done with such rare feeling and skill at pictorial imagery, and with such sympathetic understanding of Indian character on the part of Mr. Ray, that it develops a sort of hypnotism for the serene and tolerant viewer.
March 25, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle
There's pleasure in witnessing Apu's thrill of knowledge, but sadness when his ambitions create an inevitable break with his mother.