The Criterion Collection. Director Jean Renoirs entrancing first color feature-shot entirely on location in India - is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoirs subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its peoples, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation. In English. In postwar India, three adolescent girls develop competing crushes on a young American veteran disabled in combat.
