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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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Screen Daily by Fionnuala Halligan
Gitankali Rao’s debut feature is a stunningly realised work of animated film-making.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The disparate ingredients do not always gel. But in fits and starts Bombay Rose casts quite a spell.