21/42
In Mumbai, the routine of nurse Prabha is disturbed when she receives an unexpected gift from her husband away. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries to find a place in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. Director Payal Kapadia and the cast of everything we imagine how light gather to share cannes most exciting reactions and more! First Indian movie to receive the prestigious Grand Prix at the Cannes Festival in 2024. This movie dramatizes many of the challenges faced by single women living in Bombaim and emphasizes their resilience. All women here are nurses in the same hospital, but there the resemblance ends, because each has its own particular set of problems and, it can be said, solutions. Desire, fear, regret, and robust patience are emotions that continually alternate as history unfolds silently. Probably the biggest asset is the script, which offers unusual and attentive dialogues among the characters. The amount of action in the plot seems enough to provide a scaffold for conversations in which people have room to be uncommon and unprotected with each other, even when lying or posting. The performance is uniformly excellent and goes up to the level of writing – there are no false notes, although there are some ends loose. Silent intensity of the characters ' Interactions. Detachment is amplified at various points where the film seems to incorporate documentary elements or certainly creates this kind of feeling. I was not always crazy about music and how it was invoked, but this is a small fall that many may not share. In my opinion, there is a lot of heart and honesty in this movie so that it is categorized as cynical or manipulative – certainly no more than any other movie that seeks to tell an important story in an attractive and beautiful way. And this movie runs many risks that I can’t imagine well in an increasingly sectarian and Puritan Indian. I recommend “everything we imagine as light.”