All We Imagine as Light

In All We Imagine as Light, we follow two protagonists, colleagues and roommates, who couldn't be more different from each other. Prabha is devotedly waiting for her husband, who is abroad and whom she hasn't heard from in a year. She is very serious, orderly, and rejects her colleague's romantic courtship, though it is clear that she also has some affection for him. Anu, on the other hand, is a cheerful free spirit who rejects arranged marriage, and tries to steal every spare moment to spend time with her lover, which is not exactly easy for them, as they don't have many places to go or ways to be alone. I think Prabha is envious of Anu's freedom and free-spirited nature, which is putting a bit of a damper on their relationship. And that's about all that happens in the film... I heard conflicting opinions from all sides at the festival. Some called the film the best this year, and others didn't understand what all the fuss was about, and I'm in the latter group. I don't want to say that the film is bad, because it is not, but it is terribly tedious, I felt that it dragged on for at least three hours. I didn't really like the female leads either, they didn't draw me into the plot that much, so I didn't feel like I was rooting for them, that I cared about them in any way. Honestly, I liked the Indian film Santosh better, which was also screened at Cannes this year, but in the Un Certain Regard category. [Festival de Cannes 2024] (2024.05.25)

Rendkívül szelíd, csendes, lassú film tiszta, melankolikus lélekkel. Egy zsúfolt, esős Mumbai bemutatásával indul, bepillantással két ott élő barátnő életébe, majd később egy csendesebb helyen folytatódik. A tapasztalt dokumentumfilmes rendezőnő játékfilmes debütálása emlékeztet arra, hogy minőségi drámák az indiai filmalkotóktól milyen érdeklődéssel és odafigyeléssel tudják elmesélni a szereplőik érzéseit. A társadalmilag barátságtalan környezet és az ottani nehéz élet tovább mélyíti a hatást. Itt boldognak lenni annyit jelent, hogy illúzióban kell élni. [Cannes FF] (2024.05.26)