Synopsis
The Stranger (Agantuk, 1991) is the final film by Satyajit Ray, a Bengali drama you can watch online on iFILM. A man writes to say he is the woman's long-lost uncle. She convinces her husband to let him stay. The husband is skeptical from the first evening.
The visitor presents himself as an anthropologist who spent decades wandering the world. He talks easily, has stories from everywhere, and gets along at once with the couple's young son. Whether he is who he says he is — the film takes its time with that question, and isn't really interested in a clean answer.
Ray shot this while seriously ill; his honorary Academy Award was accepted from his hospital bed. The Stranger is dry and philosophical — it circles one idea: who is actually the barbarian, the man who left home and never came back, or the man who stayed put and built a wall around the familiar? Stream The Stranger (Agantuk, 1991) online on iFILM.
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