All We Imagine as Light ( M) Grand Prix Cannes FF, Best Film New York Film Critics Award
Details
- Rated M
- Runtime 118 minutes
- Genre Drama
- Director Payal Kapadia
- Writer Payal Kapadia
- Actors Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam
- Language Malayalam, Hindi and Marathi with English subtitles
- Awards Rotten Tomatoes 100% Grand Prix at Cannes and the New York Film Critics award for Best Film and was nominated for Best film at this years Golden Globes.
- Metascore 93% IndieWire 100% BBC 100% Wall street journal 100% New York times 100%
Synopsis
Grand Prix at Cannes and the New York Film Critics award for Best Film and was nominated for Best film at this years Golden Globes. There is a freshness and emotional clarity in Payal Kapadia's Cannes competition selection, an enriching humanity and gentleness which coexist with fervent, languorous eroticism and finally something epiphanic in the later scenes and mysterious final moments. This is a very patient movie, filled with equally patient performances, lyrical camerawork and some stunning images of its characters residing within the frame. Dreamlike and gentle...a glorious film...an absorbing story of three nurses that is full of humanity. Filmed with exquisite elegance and precision, ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT surprises for its subtly unconventional and even subversive approach to visual storytelling and confirms [director Payal] Kapadia as one of the most singular and compelling voices of contemporary cinema. -- Paolo Bertolin, Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival artistic director. In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.