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'Before the Rains'

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Santosh Sivan's "The Terrorist" (1999) was as memorable for its lush imagery as for its nerve-racking immediacy, and he brings the same visual opulence to "Before the Rains." It's no surprise the veteran cinematographer's eighth film as a director - and his first in English - bears the Merchant-Ivory imprimatur: It takes place at the end of the Raj, among people in a colonial quandary.

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