Sinopsis(1)
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. (Condor)
Reseñas (2)
Extremadamente delicada, tranquila y lenta, es una película con un alma pura y melancólica. Comienza como un retrato de la Mumbai abarrotada y lluviosa, con una visión de la vida de dos amigas en ella, y luego se traslada a un lugar más tranquilo. El debut en ficción de una documentalista experimentada recuerda con qué interés y atención se pueden tratar los sentimientos de los personajes en los dramas indios autoriales de calidad. Para profundizar su impacto, la directora agrega un entorno socialmente hostil y una vida difícil en él. Ser feliz aquí significa vivir en una ilusión. [Cannes FF]
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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]
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