Trishna
U.S. Premiere

Trishna

Spotlight
| U.K. | 117 MINUTES | English, Hindi
Drama

After having adapted Jude the Obscure (Jude) and The Mayor of Casterbridge (The Claim), Michael Winterbottom comes back into Thomas Hardy's world with this splendid and challenging new version of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, transported to contemporary Rajasthan in India. Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto plays the captivating Trishna, a peasant woman who lives with her large family in rural India when she meets a young British businessman, Jay. Circumstances will bring them together but social and cultural pressure will make their romance difficult. Trishna ends up being left behind as her lover reveals himself to be more and more sadistic.

Freida Pinto incarnates a vulnerable, luminous, and touching Trishna, torn between her traditional world and the modern one. Riz Ahmed is quite a revelation in the role of her charismatic and cruel suitor. Winterbottom delivers a distant, brilliant, and very personal interpretation of Hardy's novel, enhanced by a gorgeous score and some beautiful songs from Bollywood composer Amit Trivedi, added to the tasteful cinematography of dusty landscapes and teeming metropolitan areas captured in a rough-edged documentary style.


Cast & Credits
Directed by
Michael Winterbottom and Michael Winterbottom
Michael Winterbottom is the prolific director of the films Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland, I Want You, The Claim, 24 Hour Party People, BAFTA and Berlinale winner In This World, The Road to Guantanamo, A Mighty Heart, Genova, The Shock Doctrine, The Killer Inside Me, and The Trip.
Director
Michael Winterbottom
Producer
Melissa Parmenter, Michael Winterbottom
Screenwriter
Michael Winterbottom
Production Designer
David Bryan
Editor
Mags Arnold
Executive Producer
Andrew Eaton, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Shail Shah
Director of Photography
Marcel Zyskind
Composer
Amit Trivedi
Primary Cast
Frieda Pinto, Riz Ahmed

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