A Passage to India
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.
9 July 1936, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
8 August 1928, British India
16 June 1938, Hampstead, London, England, UK
1946, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
22 December 1907, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
8 January 1929, Malerkotla, Punjab, British India
2 April 1914, Marylebone, London, England, UK
15 October 1946, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
6 November 1949, London, England, UK
9 January 1933, Secunderabad, Hyderabad State, British India
April 21, 2008
Lean's visually appealing film frequently connects as a social satire and a mystical melodrama of transgressors looking for footholds in psychically threatening territory.March 19, 2008
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.June 24, 2006
Not for literary purists, but if you like your entertainment well tailored, then feel the quality and the width.November 06, 2007
Lean does an excellent job of conveying the repressive nature of British society captured in the novel.May 20, 2003
The film is very much 'a full theatrical meal,' and one that conveys a lot of 'the multiplicity of life' one seldom sees on the screen these days.November 06, 2007
An impeccably faithful, beautifully played and occasionally languorous adaptation of E.M. Forster's classic novel.April 24, 2008
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.October 23, 2004
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.April 17, 2008
Lean isn't on his A-game here, but the film isn't bad.November 06, 2007
The film, for all Lean's innate elegance, is strangely remote and unmoving. It could easily have been a Merchant-Ivory film.November 06, 2007
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.March 08, 2008
Epic, briliantly photographed, but slow David Lean drama.