Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)

Highly Recommended

India

Feature Film

Original Title: Aranyer Din Ratri

Director: Satyajit Ray

Writers: Satyajit Ray, Sunil Ganguly

Cinematographers: Purnendu Bose, Soumendu Roy

Composer: Satyajit Ray

Cast: Sharmila Tagore, Kaberi Bose, Soumitra Chatterji, Samit Bhanja, Subhendu Chatterji, Rabi Ghosh, Aparna Sen, Pahadi Sanyal

Four middle-class, twentysomething men from Calcutta head for the countryside for a week’s holiday; whilst there, they buy, demean, and patronise the locals, drink to excess, and vie for the attentions of a pair of Calcuttan girls holidaying at their country retreat, in this little seen gem from Ray – a winning mix of oft hilarious character detail and biting social comment. Iain.Stott