The New York Times by Amy Nicholson
The movie is lovely, but airless and bolted with scraps that barely hold together.
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France, India, Qatar · 2019
Rated PG-13 · 1h 33m
Director Gitanjali Rao
Starring Amit Deondi, Gargi Shitole, Makrand Deshpande, Cyli Khare
Genre Animation, Drama, Romance
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This dazzling animated film follows a flower merchant in Mumbai. A would-be child bride who escaped, she spends her days selling flowers on the street and dancing at a local bar. One day she notices another flower merchant across the street, a refugee from Kashmir, and the two gradually fall in love.
The New York Times by Amy Nicholson
The movie is lovely, but airless and bolted with scraps that barely hold together.
Screen Daily by Fionnuala Halligan
Gitankali Rao’s debut feature is a stunningly realised work of animated film-making.
Indeed, there’s such an abundance of labored-over beauty in Bombay Rose that it feels almost churlish to say its storytelling is less enrapturing: Rao, who animated, edited and wrote the film on her own, seems to be least assured on the last of those tasks.
The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin
There is a palpable sense that this was made by someone who knows Mumbai backwards and truly loves its ochre-colored streets, cluttered sidewalks and peeling billboards advertising old movie releases, right down to every frayed shred of paper.
If you’re looking for an animated dip into Indian culture and a film that charts its own path to a distinct animated style, it’s well worth a look.
Painstakingly hand-painted frame by frame, the film is visually dazzling, veering between styles and time periods to create a living, breathing continuum of Indian art. It’s mesmerizing — but given its haphazard narrative, the film’s delights begin and end at its aesthetics.
The disparate ingredients do not always gel. But in fits and starts Bombay Rose casts quite a spell.
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