Interview (Mrinal Sen, 1971)

The first film in Sen’s Calcutta Trilogy, Interview stars legendary Indian actor Ranjit Mallick (in his first role) as a young man trying to interview for a job arranged by a family friend. The only condition is that he arrives at the meeting wearing a Western-style suit, but fate intervenes again and again, keeping him from realizing this presumably simple requirement. Radical in both form and politics, the film explores familiar Sen themes including class divisions, unemployment, and colonial legacies. (101 mins., DCP) 

Screened in conjunction with the exhibition Naeem Mohaiemen: Corinthians and the Director’s Dialogue on Art and Social Change featuring a conversation with Mohaiemen and Vincent Meessen.