All We Imagine as Light
It is both dreamlike and like waking up from a dream. This is a glorious film.
-- Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
All We Imagine as Light
The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. Centering on two roommates who also work together in a city hospital—head nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and recent hire Anu (Divya Prabha)—plus their coworker, cook Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam), Kapadia’s film alights on moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment. Prabha, her husband from an arranged marriage living in faraway Germany, is courted by a doctor at her hospital; Anu carries on a romance with a Muslim man, which she must keep a secret from her strict Hindu family; Parvaty finds herself dealing with a sudden eviction from her apartment. Kapadia captures the bustle of the metropolis and the open-air tranquility of a seaside village with equal radiance, articulated by her superb actresses and by the camera with a lyrical naturalism that occasionally drifts into dreamlike incandescence. All We Imagine as Light is a soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, in all its complexities and richness.
Genre
Drama,
Romance,
Women and Film
Runtime
118
Language
Malayalam,
Hindi,
Marathi
Director
Payal Kapadia
Writer(s)
Payal Kapadia
Cast
Kani Kusruti,
Divya Prabha,
Chhaya Kadam,
Hridhu Haroon,
Azees Nedumangad
Awards:
Winner, Grand Prix, Cannes Film Festival
Nominee, Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival
Winner, TVE Otra Mirada Award, San Sebastián International Film Festival
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