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Title: Monsoon Experience
Review: If you love chaos (and who doesn't on occasion), you'll love Monsoon Wedding. But if you like a bit of order everey once in a while, if you want to hear people speaking in normal tones of voice (i.e., less than an hysterical shout) and if you want everything to work out well in an understandable way, then you should avoid this movie. The characters are cartoons and the setting is nothing short of claustrophobic, but that shouldn't cause any problem so long as you never ask the question "What's going on here?" I imagined that the movie took place in Los Angeles and that helped, but alas, it was India. It's not Mississippi Masala, but it is a darned sight better than most Bollywood films. The plot reminded me of British cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, and the acting seemed so much like slice-of-life that I had to consult my wrist-watch clock-calendar to make sure I hadn't boarded a time machine. But in the end it was all great fun.
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