31/24
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is disturbed when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Director Payal Kapadia and the cast of All We Imagine As Light come together to share the most heartwarming reactions from Cannes and so much more !. First Indian film to receive the prestigious Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024. This film dramatizes many of the challenges faced by single women living in Bombay, and underscores their resiliency. All of the women here are nurses at the same hospital, but there the resemblance ends as each has her own particular set of problems and, one could say, solutions. Probably the biggest asset is the screenplay, which offers unusually rich and thoughtful dialogues among the characters. The amount of action in the plot seems just enough to provide a scaffold for conversations where people have space to be uncommonly honest and unguarded with one another, even when they are lying or posturing. The acting is uniformly excellent and rises to the level of the writing — there are no false notes, although there are some tantalizing loose ends quiet intensity of the characters' interactions. The detachment is amplified at several points where the film seems to incorporate documentary elements or certainly creates that kind of feeling share.I dispute another reviewer's assertion that this movie was conceived of as "awards bait." In my opinion, there's too much heart and honesty to this movie for it to be categorized as cynical or manipulative — certainly no more than with any other movie that seeks to tell an important story in a compelling and beautiful way. And this film takes plenty of risks that I can't imagine going over well in increasingly sectarian and puritanical India.I highly recommend "All We Imagine as Light."
