Our next ‘First Thursday’ Film Club meet up is on December 5th after the 5:50pm screening of All We Imagine As Light. Come along and watch the film with us or see it anytime from the 29th November and then join us in the bar around 8pm on the 5th to discuss it.
All We Imagine As Light was the first Indian film to be selected in the Official Competition at Cannes in three decades. Payal Kapadia also made history as the first female Indian filmmaker ever to have a film in this prestigious section of the festival. A worthy winner of the Grand Prix and one of the best films released this year.
Centring on three co-workers and friends, Payal Kapadia’s film alights on moments of connection and heartache, disappointment and hope. 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 delicate intricacies of their lives within the bustle of the soaked metropolis and open-air tranquility of a seaside village, with equal radiance, articulated by her superb actresses and a stunning naturalism, which employs a European aesthetic to further enhance the film’s emotional core.
“It is both dreamlike and like waking up from a dream. This is a glorious film.” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“The film is a reminder of the transcendent power of cinema, even, and perhaps especially, when not all that much is happening” – Lindsey Bahr Associated Press
All We Imagine As Light is showing daily from the 29th November and tickets can be booked now.
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