Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- None
- serious
- compassionate
- reflective
- family movie night
- quiet weekend viewing
What sets it apart
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The boy's upbringing is contested between his grandparents and his working parents, making competing generational values central to the drama.
The parenting disagreement develops into a legal fight over the young boy's care.
Grandparents and parents both claim responsibility for the boy's upbringing, creating the film's emotional and ethical tension.
The plot explicitly contrasts the boy's working parents with the grandparents raising him.
Films like Posto, and why
The Squid and the Whale
family conflict, generational parenting disagreements, and emotionally grounded domestic drama
Kramer vs. Kramer
custody dispute, competing ideas of parenthood, and intimate family tensions
The Farewell
warm but serious intergenerational family drama centered on caregiving and belonging
Movie Details
- Directors
- Nandita Roy, Shiboprosad Mukherjee
- Release Date
- 2017-05-12
- Runtime
- 150 min
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 (7)
Cast
- Arghya Basu Roy
- Jisshu Sengupta
- Soumitra Chatterjee
- Mimi Chakraborty
- Lily Chakravarty
- Paran Banerjee
- Mrinal Mukherjee
Common questions
- What is Posto about?
- A Bengali family drama turns a disagreement over a boy’s upbringing into a painful legal battle between grandparents and working parents.
- What is Posto like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Posto as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Posto violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in Posto.
- Which films are like Posto?
- Films with a similar feel include The Squid and the Whale, Kramer vs. Kramer, and The Farewell.
- How long is Posto?
- Posto runs 150 minutes.
