ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
SHOWING DECEMBER 20-22 and JANUARY 3-9. 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. Centering on three women dealing with heartaches, hopes, and dissapointments, Kapadia’s film is a soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, in all its complexities and richness.
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THE ROSS WILL BE CLOSED DECEMBER 23 – JANUARY 2 FOR UNL’S WINTER BREAK
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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 (Divya Prabha)–plus their coworker, cook Parvaty (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 superb actresses 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.
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Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon
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“The courageousness of ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT doesn’t feel like a second film. It already stands as an early majestic masterwork, told with incredible control and uncommon force of will.”
“A meditative, almost spiritual evocation of the human condition at large.”