PAYAL KAPADIA | INDIA, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS, LUXEMBOURG | 2024 | 118 MIN | MALAYALAM, HINDI, MARATHI
Payal Kapadia’s dreamy, sensuous Cannes prize-winner follows the emotional journeys of two women as they search for intimacy and connection amid the bustling urban sprawl of Mumbai. Married but living thousands of miles from her absent husband, nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti) enters into a cautious courtship with a kind doctor at her hospital. Meanwhile, her spirited younger roommate Anu (Divya Prabha) faces romantic complications of her own. While her parents seek a suitable Hindu husband, Anu secretly carries on a passionate affair with a young Muslim man. After their coworker Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam) is evicted from her apartment, Prabha and Anu go with Parvaty to her seaside hometown. Away from the chaos of the city, the women come to understand each other—and themselves—as never before. Following her acclaimed experimental documentary A Night of Knowing Nothing, All We Imagine as Light marks an assured narrative debut for Kapadia, a quiet revolution that furthers the female voice in Indian cinema by leaps and bounds. It’s a melancholy and stirringly romantic evocation of loneliness and connection in one of the world’s most dynamic metropolises.
Cast: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon
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