Portraying the true nature of love -- first love, maturing love, fractured love -- is as old as cinema and never gets easy. Too many movies play the cliches and do not probe the heart as a sensory organ.
That makes Deepa Mehta's slight, mournful and yet sometimes wonderful drama, The Republic Of Love, so valuable. It is a treasure that speaks directly to the idea of love as an ephemeral emotion in all its complexity.
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