Set against the chaotic aftermath of the 1905 British partition of Bengal into Muslim and Hindu states, a love triangle forms between a Hindu landlord (Victor Banerjee), his wife (Swatilekha Chatterjee), and a charismatic revolutionary (Soumitra Chatterjee). This graceful chamber piece was completed by Satyajit Ray with his son’s help after the director suffered two massive heart attacks. Ray intended for this adaptation of a Rabindranath Tagore story to be his debut film 30 years earlier. Praising the film, Pauline Kael wrote, “When it comes to truthfulness about women’s lives this great filmmaker Ray shames the American and European directors of both sexes.”