The Namesake
Drama | English, Bengali with English subtitles | 121 minutes
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Ashoke and Ashima immigrate from Calcutta to the United States. They have two children, Gogol and Sonia. While the parents slowly adjust, Gogol becomes a troubled, pot-smoking teenager. In the classroom, the teacher describes the writer Gogol as dissolute and perverted. Gogol wonders why his parents gave him such a problematic name. He becomes attracted to Maxine, a white, privileged young woman, hoping to forget his Indian background. The relationship doesn’t pan out. Gogol’s father suddenly dies from a massive heart attack. When Gogol attends the funeral on the banks of the Ganges, he begins to appreciate his Indian background and culture.
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Why Stream This Film?
- Rotten Tomatoes Score (Critics Consensus): 86%
- Metacritic Score: 82
Accolades
- Gotham Awards: Nominated, Best Feature Film
- Listed, Top Ten Films of the Year: National Board of Review, The Christian Science Monitor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today
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With her latest effort, director Mira Nair does not disappoint. Alternately vibrant and restrained in all the right place, THE NAMESAKE is beautiful and engaging.
THE NAMESAKE is Mira Nair’s ninth feature and, I suspect, the one closest to her heart. What holds it together are the subtle loving performances by Tabu and Khan. They never overplay, never spell out what can be said in a glance or a shrug, communicate great passion very quietly.
The sumptuous film, based on Cuarón’s own childhood, reverberates not only with innocence but with the awful intuition of its collapse.
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