All We Imagine as Light

Reviews

• "ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT is a drama about life’s fragility, but it’s also about nurturance. That may sound as precious as a homily straight out of Sundance, but it’s just the reverse."
  - New York Times
• "ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT is so confident in its poise, so expert in its exfoliation of a glittering, disconnected Mumbai and the delicate interiority of its trio of women..."
  - Los Angeles Times
• "As the first Indian feature invited to compete at Cannes in nearly three decades, Payal Kapadia’s narrative début would be notable enough; that the movie is so delicately felt and sensuously textured is cause for outright celebration."
  - The New Yorker
• "Calling any given city a “character” in a movie set in it has become a haggard critical cliché, but All We Imagine as Light depicts Mumbai with such vivid and poetic specificity that the term is tempting."
  - Wall Street Journal
• "A character that’s one of the most affecting I have encountered in the movies: the wonderful Kani Kusruti turns yearning into a full-time job, and just for her, this film is worth every minute of your time, imagined or otherwise."
  - The Indian Express
• "Treads with the greatest care as it allows delicately drawn characters to tease out traumas they barely themselves acknowledge. The later scenes in rural India are hypnotic, but the film is most memorable for its largely generous portrayal of Mumbai."
  - Irish Times
• "Kapadia has an eye for the specific, important in such a sprawling story."
  - RogerEbert.com
• "It is both dreamlike and like waking up from a dream. This is a glorious film."
  - Guardian