Fire . Tucson Weekly . 03-30-98

Fire

DIRECTED BY: Deepa Mehta

REVIEWED: 03-30-98

This wonderful movie deals with such a touchy subject matter that the director, Deepa Mehta, was threatened by male audience members after it was screened in India. Indian women have received it much more enthusiastically. The film tells the tale of two unhappy wives living in an extended middle-class family in New Delhi. One is newly wed to a philandering boor; the other is stuck in a sexless, arranged marriage. They're suffocated by the weight of their traditional roles and by the nagging concept of purity, until they find liberation through their erotic affair with one another.

--Richter

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