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It's definitely good, definitely a little bit boring.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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Before the Rains
Overview
Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caught in an inexorable web of forbidden romance and dangerous secrets. After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an idealistic young man finds himself torn between his ambitions and his family, his village and his past.
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51%
Tomatometer
Fresh
India has rarely looked so beautiful onscreen. Against the anguish of his human characters, director Santosh Sivan juxtaposes a tranquil, green world in the hills of the southwestern state of Keralain 1937, 10 years before independence.
Philip Marchand, Toronto Star
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When the rains in Before the Rains finally arrive, there's nothing to cleanse, no real dirt to wash away -- not with history already so neatly packaged and polished to a dull shine.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
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It might have been more convincing if it had emphasized personalities rather than types.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
Rotten
Unfortunately, the parade of consequences brought on by the affair has little emotional substance.
Loren Lankford, Entertainment Weekly
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