In 30 years, Payal Kapadia`s `All That We Imagine As Light` turned the primary Indian movie to be chosen for Palme d`Or, the principle competitors at Cannes 2024 Film Festival. After its screening on Thursday on the French Riviera, it turned one of many lead contenders for Palme d`Or. While the movie has not bagged the award, it has acquired the jury prize or the Grand Prix, making it the primary Indian movie ever to win the title. `Anora` which was in competitors gained the Palme d`Or.
Payal Kapadia accepted the award from the jury on the closing night time of the distinguished movie pageant. She additionally invited on stage her lead cast-Kani Kusruti, Chayya Kadam and Divya Prabha- whereas accepting the award and thanked them. “It really takes a village,” stated Kapadia whereas thanking her staff behind the movie.
Le Grand Prix est attribué à ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT de PAYAL KAPADIA.
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The Jury Prize goes to ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by PAYAL KAPADIA.#Cannes2024 #Palmares #Awards #GrandPrix pic.twitter.com/Ew5SfmFmvZ— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) May 25, 2024
“This film is about the friendship between three different women and often times women are pitted against each other. This is the way our society is designed and it is really unfortunate. But for me, friendship is an important relationship. It can lead to greater solidarity and inclusivity and empathy towards each other which is why I feel these are the values which we should always strive for,” Payal stated in her acceptance speech receiving a thunderous applause.
`All We Imagine…` is the primary Indian film in 30 years to qualify for the pageant`s competitors part, which makes Kapadia a contender for the distinguished Palme d`Or. The eight-minute standing ovation on the finish of the movie`s screening was undoubtedly among the many longest of this version of the movie pageant.
The staff of the movie together with Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon, Kani Kusruti, Payal Kapadia, Divya Prabha, Ranabir Das, Julien Graff, Zico Maitra, and Thomas Hakim walked the crimson carpet in beautiful outfits. However, it was the staff dancing and having fun with their huge second that gained hearts.
Kapadia was in competitors with “European heavyweights such as Jacques Audiard and Yorgos Lanthimos, American auteurs David Cronenberg and Paul Schrader, and Asian visionary Jia Zhangke”, as `IndieWire` reminds us.
The movie did depart worldwide critics impressed after the screening, with Peter Bradshaw of `The Guardian` showering reward on it for its “freshness and emotional clarity” and evaluating Kapadia`s “fluent and absorbing” storytelling with Satyajit Ray`s in his classics, `Mahanagar` and `Aranyer Din Ratri`.
Before the screening, the internationally funded movie`s star forged adorned the crimson carpet on the steps of the Palais du Festival, with Okay
The early opinions to pour in after the screening have been glowing. In her assessment of the `beautiful and absorbing movie`, Sophie Monk-Kaufman of IndieWire wrote: This informal on a regular basis vignette is brimming with a sensuality (the rain, the garments, the meals, the ladies) that folks don`t have a tendency to note when caught up within the rhythm of life. It takes a snapshot from a photographer faraway from the scenario to make you realise how full these moments are.”
In the phrases of Fionnuala Halligan, “This fiction debut from a talented documentarian brings to mind the work of Lucrecia Martel or Alice Rohrwacher, yet there`s a strong romantic streak that also calls to mind Wong Kar-wai`s great love affair with the city of Hong Kong.”
And Jordan Mintzer of `The Hollywood Reporter` might resist evaluating the languorous movie with the cinema the world now expects from India. He commented: `All We Imagine as Light` is about so far as you may get from the stylistics of Bollywood`s masala musicals, even when there’s one quick and memorable impromptu dance scene towards the tip. And but its story of girls searching for love and happiness in a calamitous world brings to thoughts these fashionable Mumbai-set motion pictures, through which heroines undergo loads of heartbreak earlier than issues ultimately work out.”
Source: www.mid-day.com
