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Sita Sings The Blues [Import]

Annette Hanshaw (Actor), Aseem Chhabra (Actor), Nina Paley (Director) | Rated: Unrated | Format: DVD
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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Touching, exciting, innovative film July 15 2009
By Jaideep Punjabi - Published on Amazon.com
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I had the pleasure of checking out the film at a Festival in New York. The animation has a unique home made, heartfelt and endearing quality. It is visually delightful. The juxtaposition of the director's contemporary, emotional journey alongside a character from hindu mythology is a remarkably difficult to execute. She pulls it of with sensitivity and transports the audience to a period in her life. The use of witty shadow puppets as narrators is fantastic and I strongly recommend the film. It is an enjoyable, mature, non-disney like use of animation which is rare. The vision is undeniable and I am looking forward to see what the filmmaker does next.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Charming, Lush, Amazing. Oct 25 2009
By Rynona Wyder - Published on Amazon.com
Format:DVD
Imagine a Betty Boop-embodied Hindu goddess, batting obscenely gigantic eyes in an A.D.D.-friendly, cleverly-animated Indian folktale/comedic tragedy. Sita's Mystery Science Theater-style commentary is mashed with a San Francisco love-story; overlain with the sexy, smoky 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw; and is all elegantly woven into a colorful, creative, masterpiece landmark in illustrative storytelling.

Talented animator Nina Paley further exhibits badassness by redefining copyright definitions and movie distribution, and by encouraging free public screenings.

Support new media distribution, and enjoy this amazing film.
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing depth July 20 2009
By Ramesh Ramaswamy - Published on Amazon.com
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A film of amazing emotional depth , Sita Sings the Blues is not merely animated personal mythology. The film combines the creative talents of cartoonist Nina Paley with a selection of (what are now) standards from the 1920's Blues singer Annette Hanshaw (think Bessie smith without the lugubriousness) and some honest pictorial rendering of the Indian myth "The Ramayana".

Sita Sings the Blues is Pre-Cinema. If much of today's Hollywood film scripting owes itself to comic books, this film fits easily within the creative embryo of the genre and produces a minimalist ,illustrated video comic that blends disparate audio and visual styles with a narrative personal mythology , so original that it is capable of influencing a whole genration of artists and filmmakers.

Sita's story (the Ramayana is a very well known tale and Ill skip repeating the epic here) has always been the lost voice in the telling of the epic. "The blues" corrects this historical slight in a very satisfying way.

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