A Suitable Girl Matchmaking & Marriage in India
The Marriage Brokers
A SUITABLE GIRL follows three young Indian women struggling to maintain their identities and follow their dreams amid intense pressure to get married. Documenting the arranged marriage and matchmaking process in verite for over four years, the film examines the women's complex relationship with marriage, family, and society.
Winner of the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award and nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival.
"Stirring, and heartbreaking in its examination of ingrained sociocultural sexism, and the toll it takes on entire families." -- Nick Schager, Variety
Running Time
98 mins
Year
2017
Kanopy ID
2681060
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Comments (4)
Endearing and heartfelt
Those three girls' stories are happy ending but there's so many other unfortunate girls in India whose stories will break your heart
there are plenty of heartbreaking stories of unhappily wed women here in the US as well as the rest of the world
I was pulling for all of them but non more then Dipti and Karthik