Days and Nights in the Forest

Among Satyajit Ray’s crowning achievements, Days and Nights in the Forest is a wise and fully dimensional portrait of a generation of young Indian men yearning for a break from the stresses of everyday life. Adapted from Sunil Gangopadhyay’s celebrated 1968 novel, Ray (The Apu Trilogy) follows four bachelor friends as they decamp for a forest holiday, aiming to cut loose, sow some wild oats, and break a few rules along the way. 

But as dynamics with the locals grow more complicated, so do rivalries among the men themselves. Filled with some of Ray’s most indelible characters and comic moments, the newly restored Days and Nights in the Forest explores masculine vulnerabilities with the witty complexity of a master storyteller; it’s the must-see revival of the year. In Bengali with English subtitles.

“A masterpiece by one of the great film artists. Overwhelmingly beautiful, inexhaustibly rich.” —Pauline Kael, The New Yorker