All We Imagine Light 2024 as WEB-DL.10Bit Maʛnet Netflix
24/23
In Mumbai, nurse Prabha’s daily routine is disrupted when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate Anu struggles to find a place in the city where she can reconnect with her boyfriend. Director Payal Kapadia and the cast of All We Imagine As Light come together to share the most heartwarming reactions from Cannes and more. ! The first Indian film to win the prestigious Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024. This film dramatizes the many challenges faced by single women living in Bombay and highlights their resilience. Here, all the women are nurses in the same hospital, but that’s where the similarities end, as each has their own unique problems and, so to speak, solutions. Desire, fear, regret and steadfast patience are the emotions that constantly alternate as the story quietly unfolds. The amount of plot seems just enough to provide support for conversations where people have room to be unusually honest and careless with each other, even if they’re lying or posing. The acting is consistently excellent, rising to the level of the writing — there are no false notes, though there are some agonizing, loose ends. The quiet intensity of the characters’ interactions. The detachment is heightened at several points where the film seems to have documentary elements, or certainly feels that way. I wasn’t always crazy about the music and the way it’s evoked, but that’s a minor quibble that many may not share. I dispute another reviewer’s claim that this film was conceived as “awards bait.” In my opinion, there is too much heart and honesty in this film to be labeled cynical or manipulative – certainly not like any other film that wants to tell an important story in a compelling and beautiful way. And this film takes a lot of risks that I can’t imagine going over well in an increasingly sectarian and puritanical India. I highly recommend “All We Imagine as Light.”
