As the concluding film of a much beloved trilogy, Apur Sansar is a fitting capstone to one of world cinema’s greatest coming-of-age stories.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 27, 2024

It is a very remarkable work, lyrically acted, cut with a slow, opulent rhythm, and filmed in a black and white that seems to have a bloom on it, like a grape.

| Mar 5, 2024

Apu is not only the logical last act of the trilogy but a unique work in its own right.

| Feb 10, 2020

What was direct has now become self-conscious. "Pather" was about a family in a village, "Apu" is about a young writer in a city, a more complex theme and I'm not sure Ray is up to it.

| Jul 12, 2019

There's a Billy Wilder-level cleverness to the first half of the film, which makes the earth-shattering tragedy of the second half all the more devastating.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 15, 2019

[Satyajit ] Ray offers one of the great love stories in the cinema in Apur Sansar, an impulsive marriage that blossoms into a beautiful relationship.

| Jul 1, 2017

...in Aparajito and Apur Sansar the scope of the cinematography opens up to reflect Apu's broadening experience of life.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 16, 2015

Before our eyes Apu has grown up.

| May 2, 2015

...exquisitely joyful and romantic.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 9, 2015

Director Satyajit Ray forever changed the face of India's immense film industry with this uniquely personal, practically homemade, trilogy.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 14, 2012

The World of Apu completes, in alternations of suffering and joy, one of the most vital and abundant movies ever made.

| Aug 14, 2012

Great acting, remarkable use of locations, a humanistic ethos that's both wise and wary.

| Aug 7, 2012

Humanist film-making at its best.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 7, 2012

It's a classic filmed in an old-fashioned timeless way that never goes out of fashion.

| Original Score: A | Oct 3, 2008

Director Satyajit Ray, with greater technical means, makes the truth of his relationships and the revelation of India the main trumps of the film. Wit, tenderness and intrinsic human revelations illuminate this unusual film.

| Oct 24, 2007

Ray tells it in a matter of fact style, allowing the excellent acting and true emotion of the situation to speak for themselves.

| Oct 24, 2007

Though the rhythm of the storytelling is choppy and Apu himself seems incompletely realized, the first appearance of the remarkable Sharmila Tagore as his well-to-do bride upgrades the film's middle section.

| Oct 24, 2007

Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy is pure cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 27, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 12, 2005

In many ways, the final chapter of the trilogy weaves the most compelling story

| Original Score: A | Feb 27, 2005