Days and Nights in the Forest (1970) is one of Satyajit Ray's most subtle films. Adapted from an autobiographical novel by prolific Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay, the film depicts the misadventures of four friends from Calcutta with both gentle humor and bitter irony. It is among Ray's most insightful explorations of the residual legacies of the British Raj, and the closest he came to the spirit of Jean Renoir in the use of interwoven camera movements and tensions between speech and image to draw out the contradictory motivations of self-deceiving characters.