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Film · 2008 · Romantic drama
Slumdog Millionaire
Directed by Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan
2008
United Kingdom
★ 6.4 editorial score
Boyle shot Mumbai on small digital cameras in real streets and Rahman's score carried it around the world: a contestant from the slums is detained for cheating, and each question opens a memory.
“"Slumdog Millionaire" has the goods to bust out as a scrappy contender in the Oscar race. It's modern India standing in for a world in full economic spin. It's an explosion of color and light with the darkness ever ready to invade. It's a family film of shocking brutality, a romance haunted by sexual abuse, a fantasy of wealth fueled by crushing poverty.”
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