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GreenCine Daily - ”It must have sounded like a good idea to somebody, sometime, to hire an actual Indian filmmaker - Santosh Sivan, director of 1999’s The Terrorist and the 2001 historical epic Asoka the Great - to make one of those English-people-in-hot-weather, Merchant Ivory-style costume potboilers set in India,” writes Andrew O’Hehir in Salon. “What we get instead in Sivan’s Before the Rains is a perfectly matched combo of Western exoticism at its most dull-witted and Bollywood filmmaking at its most superficial.”
“Before the Rains is adapted from Red Roofs, the longest of three unrelated stories in the Israeli director Dany Verete’s 2002 film, Yellow Asphalt, which explored the collision of modern customs and tribal traditions in contemporary Israel,” notes Stephen Holden in the New York Times. “In that movie a wealthy Jewish farmer who has an affair with his Bedouin housekeeper forces his assistant, a Bedouin tribesman, to initiate drastic damage control once the relationship is detected… Before the Rains has been to moved to colonial India in 1937. The transition from one culture to another is seamless.” … [Full Story]
