加爾各答往事（印度/法國/挪威/2021/劇情）
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CALCUTTA (INDIA/FRANCE/NORWAY/2021/DRAMA)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CALCUTTA
語言：孟加拉語
Language: Bengali
劇介
Ela失去女兒後，不僅失去了母親的身份，也失去了與丈夫在一起的唯一理由。當銀行拒絕她的房貸申請，操作龐氏騙局的老闆向她提出一個建議，她勉為其難接受。Ela聯絡她的同父異母的哥哥，希望取回家族電影院的一半股份，然而哥哥不但拒絕，還指責Ela應為自己的悲慘命運負責。這時Ela的青梅竹馬出現，給她帶來新的溫暖和希望。當Ela開始過著夢想的生活，她意識到自己並不是這座貧窮城市裡唯一的拾荒者。
導演：阿迪亞維克蘭山古塔
製片：安舒莉卡杜貝，普莉揚卡阿加瓦，沙什瓦特辛
製作公司：For Films
演員：絲瑞勒卡米特拉，沙亞克羅伊，布拉蒂亞巴蘇，阿林達姆戈什，薩特拉吉特薩卡
獎項與影展：
阿迪亞維克蘭山古塔
• 2022年孟買電影節印度金獎最佳影片入圍
• 2022年紐約印度電影節最佳導演
• 2022年絲路國際電影節金絲路獎最佳影片入圍
• 2021年威尼斯影展地平線單元最佳影片入圍
• 2021年艾爾古納電影節敘事長片類競賽入圍
• 2021年艾爾古納電影節亞洲電影奈派克獎最佳亞洲電影入圍
• 2021年五味亞洲電影節亞洲新電影最佳影片入圍
• 2022年華盛頓特區國際電影節環獎
其他
• 2022年紐約印度電影節最佳女主角，絲瑞勒卡米特拉
• 2022年墨爾本印度電影節最佳女主角入圍，絲瑞勒卡米特拉
• 2021年墨爾本印度電影節最佳女主角入圍，絲瑞勒卡米特拉
• 2022年中國絲路國際電影節金絲路獎最佳攝影，格克漢蒂里亞基
影評：
評審團認為阿迪亞維克蘭山古塔帶來了一部巧妙的傑作，呈現出加爾各答的富人、窮人等各個層面的人民多樣化又親密的肖像，城市本身則扮演一個無聲而堅定的角色。透過精湛的攝影和打光，觀眾親身感受到城市下層階級生活的壓抑，也看到了普遍存在的問題。
Synopsis
After the loss of her daughter, Ela not only loses her identity as a mother, but also the only reason to be with her husband. When she is refused a home loan by the bank, her boss, owner of a massive Ponzi scheme, makes her an offer she struggles to accept. Ela reconnects with her stepbrother to reclaim her half of an old family theatre, but he refuses, blaming Ela for his own dark fate. In between all this, Ela’s childhood sweetheart resurfaces and gives her the warmth and hope for a new beginning. Just as Ela starts living the life, she had dreamed for herself, she realises that she isn’t the only scavenger in the city brimming with hunger.
Director: Aditya Vikram Sengupta
Producers: Anshulika Dubey, Priyanka Agarwal, Shashwat Singh
Production Co: For Films
Cast: Sreelekha Mitra, Shayak Roy, Bratya Basu, Arindam Ghosh,
Satrajit Sarkar
Awards & Festivals:
Aditya Vikram Sengupta
• Best Film Nominee, India Gold, Mumbai Film Festival, 2022.
• Best Director, New York Indian Film Festival, 2022.
• Best Film Nominee, Golden Silk Road Award, Silk Road International Film Festival China, 2022.
• Best Film Nominee, Venice Horizons Award, Venice Film Festival, 2021.
• Feature Narrative Competition Nominee, Golden Star, El Gouna Film Festival, 2021.
• Best Asian Film Nominee, NETPAC Award, El Gouna Film Festival, 2021.
• Best Film Nominee, New Asian Cinema, Five Flavours Asian Film Festival, 2021.
• Circle Award, Washington DC International Film Festival, 2022.
Others
• Sreelekha Mitra, Best Actress, New York Indian Film Festival, 2022.
• Sreelekha Mitra, Best Actress Nominee, IFF Award, Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, 2022.
• Sreelekha Mitra, Best Actress Nominee, IFF Award, Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, 2021.
• Gokhan Tiryaki, Best Cinematography, Golden Silk Road Award, Silk Road International Film Festival China, 2022.
Reviews:
The jury felt that with his film, Aditya gave the film world an artful masterpiece that offers diverse, yet intimate, portraits of the rich, poor and disreputable residents of Calcutta, with the city itself playing a role that is both silent and robust. Through superb cinematography and lighting, the viewers get a vivid sense of the oppressiveness of life for the city’s underclass, as well as issues that are specific and universal...”
