Remembrance of Things Present (81 mins)
India, 2007, directed by Chandra Siddan
Winner of the Second Best Film Award at Film South Asia ’07
How is a teenager supposed to deal with an arranged marriage? How does one resolve the conflict of a displaced life after years of nomadic existence abroad? In Remembrance of Things Present, the filmmaker, now living in Canada, returns to Bangalore to confront her parents with the former question, while she herself tries to resolve the latter. Long divorced and newly remarried, she records some profoundly touching conversations with her parents – while also finding her past being repeated in the life of her parents’ household help.
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http://www.thehindu.com/mp/2008/01/12/stories/2008011250560200.htm