Sight & Sound best films of the year (2024). The light, the lives and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated in this Cannes Grand Prize winner.
Centring on two roommates - Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and Anu (Divya Prabha) plus their coworker Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam) - Kapadia's film alights on moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment. Prabha has her husband from an arranged marriage living in faraway Germany; Hindu Anu carries on a secret romance with a Muslim man; Parvaty finds herself dealing with a sudden eviction. Kapadia captures the bustle of the metropolis and the open-air tranquillity of a seaside village with equal radiance, articulated by her superb actresses and by the camera that occasionally drifts into dreamlike incandescence. (Subtitles)
India 2024 Payal Kapadia 118m
