Reviews

• Exquisite storytelling, acting and visuals.

  Kirk Honeycutt - The Hollywood Reporter
  
  11 May 2013

• The writer-director doesn't raise her voice, even as she firmly condemns the injustice. Water seduces us with its beauty and sorrow.

  Michael Wilmington - The Chicago Tribune
  
  11 May 2013

• The best elements of Water involve the young girl and the experiences seen through her eyes. I would have been content if the entire film had been her story.

  Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times
  
  11 May 2013

• Mehta has created the perfect guide to this strange female world.

  Ruthe Stein - The San Francisco Chronicle
  
  11 May 2013

• A haunting and disturbing film, set in 1938, about "widow houses." Though occasionally overwrought, it emerges as life-affirming.

  Claudia Puig - USA Today
  
  11 May 2013