Viceroy’s House
Director Gurinder Chadha takes inspiration from her family history for this historical epic about the events leading to the Partition of India in 1947. Her film’s main focus, however, is on Hugh Bonneville’s Lord Louis Mountbatten, Britain’s last imperial viceroy, newly arrived in New Delhi with his wife Edwina (Gillian Anderson) to oversee the transition from British rule to Indian independence. Chadha’s Upstairs Downstairs view of events is a tad soapy, but is handsomely mounted from start to finish. Also on Friday. 2017, 12, 106MIN