Midnight's Children

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Midnight's Children

2013,

2h 28m,

Drama

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Children born on the brink of India's independence grow up in a country that is vastly different from their parent's generation.

Critics Consensus

Though Midnight's Children is beautiful to look at and poignant in spots, its script is too indulgent and Deepa Mehta's direction, though ambitious, fails to bring the story together cohesively.

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Shubhra Gupta

The Indian Express

Mar 21, 2019

2.5/5

Deepa Mehta's film is only intermittently engaging: it is limited in scope and imagination, and in parts it becomes plodding and stagey.

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Deborah Ross

The Spectator

Sep 4, 2018

The trouble with... Midnight's Children, aside from the fact it is a mess and a muddle, is that it goes on and on and on and on. And on. And on. And then, just when you think it has to be over, it goes on some more.

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Kaleem Aftab

Independent (UK)

May 15, 2018

Never complex enough to work as an allegory of the complex relationship between India and Pakistan.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Aug 12, 2019

Midnight's Children is simply too long, too glossy, and too safe to reach the epic level it seems to be attempting.

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Brian D. Johnson

Maclean's Magazine

Jul 31, 2019

Deepa Mehta deserves kudos for directing the magisterial Midnight's Children, although it's a shame screenwriter Salman Rushdie wasn't more ruthless with his own novel.

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C.J. Prince

Way Too Indie

Jun 21, 2019

Particularly thanks to Rushdie's involvement as a co-screenwriter, it is easy to feel not only the characters of his novel coming to life, but indeed, the mystical quality of its history.

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Kylo S

May 22, 2018

Eine wirklich kongeniale Adaption des ersten Romans von Salman Rushdie. Die Geschichte, nein, die Familiensaga, beschreibt die Geschichte des indischen Subkontinents vom Ende der Kolonialherrschaft bis zur Abspaltung Pakistans und Bangladeshs, beinhaltet kriegerische Auseinandersetzungen ebenso wie die brutalen Säuberungen der Slums von Bombay durch Indira Ghandis, am Bespiel einer Familie. Das Spannende ist jedoch, dass die Geschichte und die Schicksale der Protagonisten im parallel zu der Geschichte des Subkontinents laufen, kein Wunder, sind die "Mitternachtskinder" doch um Mitternacht des 15. Augusts 1947 geboren, die Stunde der indischen Unabhängigkeit. Die kindliche Distanz der realen Ereignisse könnte man dem Film vorwerfen, allerdings fesselt der so erzeugte Zauber und die zum Teil komische Surrealität den Zuschauer. Es war von Vorteil, dass Salman Rushdie selbst das Drehbuch verfasste und so die Essenz seiner Romanvorlage einfangen konnte.

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Hermione R

Feb 15, 2018

Beautiful, good idea, but maybe much too long for a single film. Interesting take on the evolution of India but the drama did not take. Some events seems coming out of a magician hat. Something is missing for the film to glue together.

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Synopsis

Children born on the brink of India's independence grow up in a country that is vastly different from their parent's generation.

Director: Deepa Mehta
Producer: David Hamilton
Screenwriter: Salman Rushdie
Distributor: Paladin
Production Co: Number 9 Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 26, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 11, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $139.6K
Runtime: 2h 28m

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