Before the Rains

[lsanderson]

After Them the Monsoon: Two Worlds Collide in India

By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: May 9, 2008

Fatal culture clash, imperialist entitlement, forbidden passion between master and servant: the ingredients of the Indian director Santosh Sivan’s period piece “Before the Rains” may be awfully familiar, but the film lends them the force of tragedy. From the moment Moores (Linus Roache), an arrogant British planter in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala, hands a gun to his loyal manservant T. K. (Rahul Bose), you can be certain that the weapon will be discharged and lives destroyed. More

It's a bit of an intercultural hothouse movie. A little too much white skinned Englishman vs exotic darker Indian woman, but it was a sneak, so the ticket price wuz perfect. I also walked, so other than wear on shoe leather, not a lot of investment. After spending too much time reading the night before, I wasn't up for much else anyway.