“The Namesake is gorgeously shot and told. There is not a moment of exoticism or self-conscious ‘us-traditional-but-modern-Indians’ Bollywoodisms. No virgin Indian girls and testosterone-peaked Indian men. No India calling. No stereotypes or rigid tradition bound parents,” writes SAPNA SAMANT....[Read More]

The Namesake opens the World Cinema Showcase in Auckland this Thursday, March 15, and Wellington the following fortnight on March 29. Also reviewed: CALEB STARRENBURG looks at Like Minds, “a tale of grim teen hegemony, murder, secret societies and historical fervor... a sort of emo-kid utopia inhabiting a Da Vinci Code world,” one of five Australian films featured in this year’s programme.

More World Cinema Showcase reviews under The Festival Reader.