All We Imagine as Light

Um filme extremamente delicado, silencioso, lento com uma alma pura e melancólica. Começa como o retrato de Mumbai superpovoada e chuvosa com um vislumbre da vida de duas amigas lá, e depois muda para um lugar mais tranquilo. A estreia ficcional de uma experiente realizadora de documentários lembra com que interesse e atenção os dramas indianos autorais de qualidade podem contar histórias de sentimentos de personagens. O ambiente socialmente hostil e a vida difícil nele aprofundam a intensidade. Ser feliz aqui significa viver em ilusão. [Cannes FF] (26/05/2024)

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] (25/05/2024)