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‘All We Imagine As Light’ Review: Payal Kapadia’s Poetic Meditation On Life In Urban Mumbai – Cannes Film Festival


‘All We Imagine As Light’ review: Payal Kapadia's poetic meditation on life in urban Mumbai – Cannes Film Festival

The two women are both Hindi but very different; Anu bores easily, never pays her rent on time, and has a reputation for immodesty, having been spotted consorting with a strange man who appears to be her boyfriend. When it becomes clear that Parvaty — who, like many in the city, doesn’t have a single piece of evidence that her home is hers — won’t stand a chance against the lawyered-up landowners, Prabha and Anu help her move back to her family’s remote village. Anu has arranged to meet up with her boyfriend for a clandestine hook-up, but the calmness of this ramshackle little seaside beauty spot gives Prabha some space to think about the direction her life is taking.

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