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All We Imagine as Light

2024 · 118 min

A quiet, drifting immersion into city lives, where small gestures and unspoken longings accumulate into something tender and luminous.

Overview
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • love
  • identity
  • friendship
  • healing
Places
  • big city
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance5
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Payal Kapadia
Written by
Payal Kapadia
Starring
Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon, Azees Nedumangad, Tintumol Joseph, Anand Sami, Lovleen Mishra
Music
Dhritiman Das
Cinematography
Ranabir Das
Runtime
118 min
Country
India, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy
Languages
German, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, English

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