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22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Trishna is in love with India without romanticizing it.
- 65MovielineStephanie ZacharekMovielineStephanie ZacharekThough it's a bit of an oddity, it's an affecting curio suitable for both Hardy enthusiasts and Winterbottom fans alike.
- 60EmpireDavid HughesEmpireDavid HughesThe ever-versatile Winterbottom's loose and limber adaptation doesn't entirely mesh with Hardy's more formal narrative, leaving this feeling disjointed and underpowered. Nevertheless, there's still plenty to enjoy in the director's customary flourishes.
- 60Total FilmNeil SmithTotal FilmNeil SmithSome will balk at Pinto's passivity, but Trishna again shows Winterbottom to be one of the few directors today who are liberated, rather than constricted, by classic literature.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfWinterbottom's risks are welcome; it may be time, though, to invest more heart instead of head.
- 50Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerClass privilege and sexual politics are inextricably linked in Trishna, Michael Winterbottom's blunt, self-consciously brutal, and rather loose updating of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles."
- 50Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe shots of urban traffic jams have more spark than the story, which skips from a pregnancy to the filming of a musical to murder - without convincing us of any of it.
- 50Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMichael Winterbottom's films aren't always successful, but they're almost always interesting. And, in the case of this odd transplantation from Thomas Hardy's grim Wessex to the glare and blare of contemporary India, spectacular visually, though awfully somber dramatically.
- 40The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawWinterbottom's location work in Jaipur and Mumbai has richness and spectacle, but somehow this does not come fully to life.
- 40The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisLife is suffering, as the Buddha said (including in Hardy's emotionally grinding novels), but it's more complex and contradictory than the ginned-up realism Mr. Winterbottom delivers here.