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Film: Animation Nina Paley: Sita Sings the Blues

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From a profound dharmic confluence comes Sita Sings the Blues, a breathtaking new animated film by cartoonist Nina Paley. As her comic-world fame and interest in low-fi cinema grew, Paley found herself first living in India, then in NYC in a post-divorce hell, when her personal challenges dovetailed into an inspired whole. Having already been absorbed in the art and literature of India — in particular Rama and Sita's epic love story in the ancient Ramayana — Paley discovered parallels in the sultry jazz of flapper icon Annette Hanshaw. Separated by centuries, the passions of these women take up a common cause in this haunting celebration of love's transformative power.

– Shana Nys Dambrot

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