One of the crucial acclaimed movies of the 12 months, Payal Kapadia’s dazzling Cannes Movie Competition Grand Prize winner All We Imagine as Light is now lastly rolling out stateside. After stops at Telluride, TIFF, and NYFF, Sideshow and Janus Movies will launch it in U.S. theaters beginning November 15 and now have debuted the brand new trailer. Whereas India foolishly didn’t choose it to compete within the worldwide function class at this 12 months’s Academy Awards, hopefully it’ll take an Anatomy of a Fall-esque path this season.
Right here’s the synopsis: “The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. Centering on two roommates who also work together in a city hospital—head nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and recent hire Anu (DivyaPrabha)—plus theircoworker, cookParvaty (Chhaya Kadam), Kapadia’s film alights on moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment. Prabha, her husband from an arranged marriage living in faraway Germany, is courted by a doctor at her hospital; Anu carries on a romance with a Muslim man, which she must keep a secret from her strict Hindu family; Parvaty finds herself dealing with a sudden eviction from her apartment. Kapadia captures the bustle of the metropolis and the open-air tranquility of a seaside village with equal radiance, articulated by her superbactresses and by the camera with a lyrical naturalism that occasionally drifts into dreamlike incandescence. All We Imagine as Light is a soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, in all its complexities and richness.”
Luke Hicks stated in his assessment, “Writer-director Payal Kapadia isn’t interested in the flashy world of Mumbai that gets so much global attention. Per its opening soundscape, All We Imagine as Light means to bask in the luminescence of life found among India’s lower classes, which means acknowledging the inequality and socio-economic injustice that defines their everyday as much as it means showcasing their intrinsic glow and dogged refusal to let the inalienable love, beauty, and camaraderie of existence be taken from them.”
See the trailer beneath.
