STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT : on PASSAGE (2009)

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Written by SHEILA CALLAGHAN and AMY KAUFMAN, PASSAGE is a transcendent experience, told with great passion for images and the unsaid by cross continental Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur. It hinges itself on the 'strangers in the night' paradigm. However, this tale is centred on three sisters who come together for an unique reconciliation.

 However, this tale is centred on three sisters who come together for an unique reconciliation

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Julia Stiles is here and her passive expressions reflect her tough role as the eldest sibling or the hardships of her life have made her cloak her emotional transparency, neutral to exhibiting much. The two younger sisters, played by Haley Bennett and Lily Cole, get to fill that void. Haley is excellent from start to finish and the emotional communication through eyes, body language and her impassioned operatic singing capture a snapshot of the three women, who are clearly in flux, with Lily espousing the silence of her world ( as she is hearing impaired)

We get immersed in the backlog of pain, personal struggles of them all( never shown on screen), tied by the reappearance of the eldest who has anchored them and takes the reins for them this time too.

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