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www.moviemartyr.com - : Gandhi has been bandied about so often as an example of the Academy’s tendency to give the Oscar to the safest, most important film that I half expected it to be wholly mawkish and terrible. It’s really not nearly as bad as I feared it might be. Although director Richard Attenborough has a tendency to cut to a reaction shot of a child to demonstrate the emotion he wants the audience to feel from time to time, those probably comprise less than three minutes of the running time, which is over three hours long. more...
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3.5/
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www.film.u-net.com - : An epic interpretation of the forces which shaped Gandhi and how these filtered into his relationship with India, Gandhi portrays a man of deep simplicity. In the South Africa of 1893, casual racism and discrimination is forcefully embedded into the culture. Unfortunately Mohandas K. Gandhi (Ben Kingsley), fresh from studies in England, is unaware of this divide as he travels on his first class train ticket. more...
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4/5
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : The movie is a labor of love by Sir Richard Attenborough, who struggled for years to get financing for his huge but ''non-commercial'' project. Various actors were considered over the years for the all-important title role, but the actor who was finally chosen, Ben Kingsley, makes the role so completely his own that there is a genuine feeling that the spirit of Gandhi is on the screen. more...
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4/4
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