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"Delicate and lyrical," Payal Kapadia's globally relatable and poignant picture will "win hearts everywhere" during its Cannes premiere.
The most well-known films that pay tribute to major cities at night include those set in New York, Paris, Rome, and Vienna. All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia's enchanted tribute to Mumbai's nightlife, will now need to make room on that list as it made its Cannes Film Festival debut on Thursday. The most of it takes place after dark, when the rainy, foggy electric lights provide a lovely glow and the blaring automobile horns of the busy metropolis are muffled.
Even during the busy daytime hours, when people experience the pain of their desires they might choose to ignore.
All We Imagine as Light initially seems to follow the same strategy as A Night of Knowing Nothing, Kapadia's first feature film. In the first minutes of the film, people are shown setting up market stalls, cleaning up trash, and waiting for commuter trains while staring into the camera. Their voiceovers comment on how alluring the "city of dreams" is. However, the movie quickly shifts into an ensemble drama about three powerful women who share a hospital. Audiences will fall in love with them because they are all shown with such respect and tenderness, but without being overly mushy.
The main character is Prabha (Kani Kusruti), a committed, serious-minded nurse whose husband left their arranged marriage to work at a factory in Germany. Even though he hasn't called her in over a year, she still longs for his return, even in the face of cautious approaches from a nice doctor who composes poetry and prepares desserts for her.
The beautiful triple portrait All We Imagine as Light features women who have dedicated their lives to helping others but have reaped very little in the way of financial gain, social position, or personal independence. If they were males, things would be different: the humorous opening sequences set up the film's feminist premise.
in which Anu gives a 25-year-old lady who already has three children a bottle of contraceptive pills, and an elderly patient tells Prabha that the spirit of her late husband continues disturbing her while she tries to watch television.
However, Kapadia refrains from using polemic and avoids trying to impose comedy or tragedy on the story. She merely narrates the poignant tales of three friends who merely want to be permitted to continue as they are in a straightforward, poetic manner. The details of living as a woman in modern-day Mumbai are particular in All We Imagine as Light, an Indian-French co-production, but it also has the vibe of an independent comedic drama from the United States or Europe. It is both universal and
Anyone who has ever been alone in a city or watched a film on the subject will be hypnotised by it since it is universal and emotionally compelling enough.
It's also significant because it's the first Indian film directed by a woman to be included in Cannes' main Competition section. All We Imagine as Light might very well win when the Festival's prizes are revealed on Saturday night, since Greta Gerwig chairs the Competition jury and this heartwarming, female-led picture bears certain similarities to her own work. All We Imagine as Light, nevertheless, is certain to be one of those foreign pictures that transcends the art-house festival circuit and finds its way into theatres and people's hearts all over the world, trophy or not.
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