| 词条 | Desperately Seeking Helen |
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Desperately Seeking Helen is a 1998 film by Eisha Marjara, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It documents the life of the Bollywood star Helen and also discusses Marjara's process of self-discovery.[1] Marjara liked Helen as a child, and Marjara stated "Helen is a conduit into my childhood — my relationship with my mother, my struggle with anorexia and the Air India disaster which took the lives of my mother and sister."[2] Jerry Pinto, author of Helen: The Life and Times of an H-bomb, wrote that the film "is as much about Eisha Marjara's perception of Helen as it is about Helen."[3] Desperately Seeking Helen uses Hindi music.[1] The film covers the complications in the relationship between Marjara and her mother,[4] Devinder.[5] Marjara had the perception that her mother was unable to balance the culture of Canada against that of India, and Devinder was more feminine and traditional compared to her daughter.[1] The film also discusses the 1985 Air India Flight 182 bombing,[6] which ultimately killed Davinder along with Seema, one of Marjara's sisters.[5] D.B. Jones, the author of "Brave New Film Board," wrote that the filmmaker "verges on self-pity and often seems self-absorbed, but she can also be brutally honest about herself."[4] Sabeena Gadihoke, the author of "Secrets and Inner Voices: The Self and Subjectivity in Contemporary Indian Documentary," wrote that the "deeply personal" film "did not easily fit popular conceptions of documentary" since it had a "fictive structure in which the filmmaker staged her own body" as well as "reflexive use of humor" and "whimsy".[7] Angela Failler argued that the film was what had been described as a "counter-memorial" of the Air India Flight 182 disaster.[8] BackgroundThe National Film Board selected Marjara to make a film on the Air India Flight 182 disaster in 1994. She did research by visiting Trois-Rivières and taking one trip to India.[2] The title is a reference to the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan.[6] Marjara dedicated her film to Air India Flight 182 victims, including Davinder and Seema.[9] Release{{expand section|date=November 2014}}Its first screening in India was during the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF).[10] ReceptionIt was ranked as the "Theater Critic's Choice" in the Chicago Reader in 1999.[11] Firdaus Ali of Rediff wrote that the film received "rave reviews".[1] Gadihoke stated that in India the film received some criticism due to a perception that it was "self-absorbed"; Gadihoke argued that this was because the film used "strategies unfamiliar to documentary discourse in India at the time."[10] References1. ^1 2 3 Ali, Firdaus. "In search of a vamp" ([https://www.webcitation.org/6UGqEuGHm?url=http://www.rediff.com/us/2000/apr/24us1.htm Archive]). Rediff. April 24, 2000. Retrieved on November 22, 2014. 2. ^1 Black, Barbara. "Air India disaster hit Concordia hard" ([https://www.webcitation.org/6UGqTZ3b8?url=http://ctr.concordia.ca/2004-05/apr_07/20/ Archive]). Concordia's Thursday Report. April 21, 2005. Volume 29, No. 14. Retrieved on November 22, 2014. 3. ^Pinto, Jerry. Helen: The Life and Times of an H-bomb. Penguin Books India, 2006. {{ISBN|0143031244}}, 9780143031246. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ng_vVIcq5yQC&pg=PA204 204]. 4. ^1 Jones, D.B. "Brave New Film Board". In: Beard, William and Jerry White (editors). North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980. University of Alberta, 2002. {{ISBN|088864390X}}, 9780888643902. Start: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=iLNhHWfarosC&pg=PA19 19]. CITED: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=iLNhHWfarosC&pg=PA36 36]. 5. ^1 "Air India 182 Press Kit" ([https://www.webcitation.org/6TW0yXSDS?url=http://www.airindia182.com/downloads/AirIndia182PressKit.pdf Archive]). Air India 182 (film) official website. p. 11/12. Retrieved on October 22, 2014. 6. ^1 Bontempo, Mirella. "The Other English-Canadian film: Indo-Canadian cinema" ([https://www.webcitation.org/6UH96LURt?url=http://montrealserai.com/2012/07/27/the-other-english-canadian-film-indo-canadian-cinema/ Archive]). Montreal Serai. July 27, 2012. Retrieved on November 22, 2014. 7. ^Gadihoke, Sabeena. "Secrets and Inner Voices: The Self and Subjectivity in Contemporary Indian Documentary." In: Lebow, Lisa (editor). The Cinema of Me: Self and Subjectivity in First-Person Documentary Film (Nonfictions series). Columbia University Press, August 13, 2013. {{ISBN|0231850166}}, 9780231850162. Google Books [https://books.google.com/books?id=uS7wAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT213 PT213]-[https://books.google.com/books?id=uS7wAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT214 PT214]. 8. ^Henderson, Jennifer and Pauline Wakeham (editors). Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress. University of Toronto Press, June 17, 2013. {{ISBN|1442695471}}, 9781442695474. Google Books [https://books.google.com/books?id=DZWBAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT259 PT259]. 9. ^Somani, Alia Rehana. "Broken Passages and Broken Promises: Reconstructing the Komagata Maru and Air India Cases" ([https://www.webcitation.org/6WZZW3M6K?url=http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article%3D1579%26context%3Detd Archive]) (PhD thesis). The University of Western Ontario. 2012. p. 146-147 (PDF file p. 155-156). 10. ^1 Gadihoke, Sabeena. "Secrets and Inner Voices: The Self and Subjectivity in Contemporary Indian Documentary." In: Lebow, Lisa (editor). The Cinema of Me: Self and Subjectivity in First-Person Documentary Film (Nonfictions series). Columbia University Press, August 13, 2013. {{ISBN|0231850166}}, 9780231850162. Google Books [https://books.google.com/books?id=uS7wAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT213 PT213]. 11. ^Shen, Ted. "Desperately Seeking Helen" (review) ([https://www.webcitation.org/6UGqeiZHS?url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/desperately-seeking-helen/Content?oid%3D899061 Archive]). Chicago Reader. April 29, 1999. Retrieved on November 22, 2014. Further reading
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