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Before the Rains

Passion has its price.

This Merchant-Ivory production is set in 1930s southern India, against the backdrop of a growing nationalist movement. An idealistic young Indian man finds himself torn between his ambitions for the future and his loyalty to the past when people in his village learn of an affair between his married British boss and a village woman.

96 minutes, No persons under 13 (Sex, Violence)
Drama, On the art circuit

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Credits
Cast	Linus Roache, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Jennifer Ehle, Leopold Benedict
Director	Santosh Sivan
Screenplay	Cathy Rabin, based on the 2001 film by Dan Verete
Music	Mark Kilian
Cinematography	Santosh Sivan
Editing	Steven Cohen, A. Sreekar Prasad
Sound formats	Dolby Digital
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2007
Produced by	Adirondack Pictures, Echo Lake Productions, Excalibur Pictures, Merchant Ivory Productions, Santosh Sivan Productions
SA Distributor	UIP

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FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Drama
Language	Very mild, infrequent, no impact
Nudity	None
Sex	Implied with suggestive sounds, fairly sensual scene, infrequent
Violence	Moderate violence, mild blood, infrequent, also domestic violence.
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments	None
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
South African Media
Cape Argus/The StarTheresa Smith	10
Die BurgerRozanne Els	10
Sunday TimesBarry Ronge	10
24.com	5
International Media
Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert	13
eye Weekly (Canada)Adam Nayman	5
Metacritic.com19 critics	9
RottenTomatoes.com51 critics	10
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer	9
Internet (IMDB)304 Netizens	13

Average .. 47%	9

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