All We Imagine as Light (2024)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 100 minuten
Country:
France / India / Netherlands / Luxembourg / Italy
Directed by: Payal Kapadia
Stars: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha and Chhaya Kadam
IMDb score:
7,1 (10.856)
Releasedate: 21 September 2024
All We Imagine as Light plot
The nurse Prabha receives a present from her husband from whom she has become estranged. This gift completely confuses her. Meanwhile, her roommate Anu tries to find a suitable place in the city to take the next step in their relationship with her boyfriend. The two girls travel to a mystical forest near a seaside town.
Actors and actresses
Prabha
Anu
Parvaty
Shiaz
Dr. Manoj
Nurse Shanet
Dr. Supriya
Kaki
Young Woman
Reviews & comments
Fisico (moderator films)
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- 10017 messages
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Mumbai is one big melting pot of people who are looking for happiness in a better life. Apparently Mumbai counts many (native) migrants where they try to build a new life in all anonymity and alienation despite the facets that are so typical of a (impoverished) city of millions. India is in that respect enormously fascinating on a cultural-religious level, complex too. And for women it is extra difficult because of the patriarchal society.
In "All we imagine as light" we follow three nurses who strive for connection and identity. It is about self-determination and the right to exist, both rather clumsy concepts and it is sometimes a bit of a search to find where the director wants to go. Yet it has become a serene portrait, a silent struggle, sometimes against better judgment. We follow the three women, each with their own desires and trials, not bad at all, but I did not always connect with all the stories.
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Flipman
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- 6937 messages
- 1133 votes
I especially like that the culture is portrayed in such an accessible way for Westerners. No problem if it is not presented in bite-sized chunks, some films and stories in other media are meant to make you think and let you discover the contrasts between what you know and what is being told. But here you can just calmly step into the story and let yourself be carried away. And then you get something beautiful.
No idea if a second viewing will give me more, but perhaps I will spot more details in the story. In any case, I thought it was beautiful how Prabha addressed the drowning man as her husband and thus still got the closure she always wanted.
For now a 4/5. Maybe more later. I've typed an extensive review about it.
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De filosoof
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- 2293 messages
- 1560 votes
The first part of the film is set in Mumbai and although the city is dirty and overcrowded, the way it is portrayed is always poetic and although the storylines are simple – the three nurses whose story is told all have their difficulties in life and love – and much is said about banal things, it does touch on the essence of life and what is said is often philosophical, such as “Mumbai is called the city of dreams. I call it the city of illusions” and when the youngest says she cannot marry a man she does not know, the other says “even acquaintances can one day be strangers to you”. The jazzy music in the background makes it complete: this is a poetic film that gives even the mundane a transcendental aura.
The film draws you in like an ASMR experience (in the city it rains all the time in that context) and the second part where they have returned to the countryside extends that to a mysticism like I know from some Thai films, which also creates space for a kind of hallucination that Prabha simultaneously wakes up. It also makes clear that the director is a woman because the film is in fact about the women discovering themselves with which they liberate themselves internally even if society is still patriarchal. But the feminist message does not bother: the film is subtle and hypnotic and quietly manages to turn both the lives of the women and the film as a medium into a work of art.
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