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Prisoners of Paradise review
An upper-class Englishwoman falls in love with a worker on her uncle’s sugar plantation in this insipid adaptation of Romesh Gunesekera’s novel
TL;DR
- The film is set in 1925 on a sugar plantation in colonial Mauritius.
- It tells the story of Lucy, a young Englishwoman, who falls in love with Krishna, a local man of Indian heritage.
- Lucy's uncle, George, holds racist beliefs and faces financial ruin, hoping Lucy will marry a wealthy Frenchman.
- The film is described as a chaste and idealistic drama, but is also criticized for being underdeveloped and insipid.
- The realities of Krishna's life and the conditions of the workers are not sufficiently explored.