GANDHI (DIDIER BECU)

Rating: 7/10 (3 March 2004)

Every year has its movies that mankind has to see. It seems you haven't lived if you haven't seen Schlinder's List and in 1982 you must have been some associal monster when not taking care about this movie. Anyway, the person Gandhi may not be mixed up with this movie as how great Gandhi must be as living person the movie itself comes over quite dated twenty years later. The problem is that Gandhi follows too much the strict base of any other biography and apart from Gandhi who stands up against the British colonists there is no real story. A movie that lasts about 4 hours could have explained more the killing for instance as all by all you still are left with mysteries and someone who sat down such a long time wants to know more, not? Attenborough has never been a brilliant director, he just chooses both his subjects and examples well. Is the movie overrated then? Not at all, it even is a movie that has to be seen (for the extreme good performances from Ben Kingsley alone) but I can't just escape the feeling that in 1982 I would have rated it with four stars whereas now three.