|
|
When Lily, a British woman living on her family's estate in post-independence India circa 1954, gives birth prematurely in a former British hospital while her journalist husband is away on assignment, she turns to Cotton Mary, an Anglo-Indian nurse who promises that "God will feed the child." "God," as it turns out, is Mary's crippled sister, Blossom, a wet nurse who lives... See Full Description
| Genres: |
Drama |
|
| Running Time: |
2 hrs. 2 min. |
|
| Release Date: |
March 15, 2000 NY;February 18, 2000 NY/LA |
|
| MPAA Rating: |
R for a scene of sexuality. |
|
| Distributors: |
Artistic License Films
|
|
| U.S. Box Office: |
$299,352 |
|
|
| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade:
N/A
|
|
culturevulture.net,
"This is a tale of melancholy endings, of an era coming to a whimpering close, the tattered finale of the historical error of colonial rule. Had Merchant been able to take this material and express it in terms of sympathetic characters, 'Cotton Mary' would have been a memorable film. But he gives us not one person with whom to identify, not one for whom we can care." Full Review...
|
Film Journal International,
"Didactic script by first-time screenwriter Alexandra Viets is not helped by Ismail Merchant's direction." Full Review...
|
Inside Out Film,
(3 out of 5 stars) "The nuances of life as an Anglo Indian in the post-colonial Fifties will go over most people's heads. And yet that is what this is about." Full Review...
|
Irish Times,
"The nadir in the career of Merchant-Ivory Productions, 'Cotton Mary' is a feebly scripted and excruciatingly heavy-handed effort set in the post-colonial India of the 1950s with Madhur Jaffrey in a shrill, irritating performance as Mary, a domineering nurse of mixed race who firmly believes she is superior to her friends and relatives." Full Review...
|
|
|
In Theaters 
Production Photos: 
