All We Imagine as Light (2024) India, Directed by Payal Kapadia

 

All We Imagine as Light 2024 (India)

Directed by Payal Kapadia

Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre

Thursday May 21

Doors Open :6.30

Special Treat: Indian Sweets will be served before the movie

Described by reviewers as a dreamlike, tender and deeply humanistic drama, the film follows the story of three nurses in modern day Mumbai. A mood of romantic and emotional insecurity hangs over these women’s lives. Kapadia’s story telling is fluent and absorbing. A bitter sweet exploration of urban loneliness. “In times when reality asserts itself harshly Kapadia reminds us that dreaming is also a form of resistance (Gisela Savdie)

They endure the nerve jangling unhappiness and stress of living in a big city – where you are surrounded by people but are effectively alone. When Parvaty decides to quit her job and move home to her small village on the coast, Prabha and Anu decide to accompany her.

Prabha finds relief when she is called on to use her professional skills in a crisis. She also realizes what it has meant to be separated from her husband for so long and also from her own happiness and future. It makes her understand how unhappy her husband has been and the nature of the darkness in which They have both been living.

REELS WINE SELECTION

“All We Imagine as Light”

Wine themes:

# An Indian Film

# Light & its effects eg shadows, silhouettes

# Secrets / A secret love affair

REDS

“Elephant in the Room”(note small ears = Indian elephant) Barossa, Splendiferous Shiraz, 2022

“Secret Tracks” Coonawarra, Cabernet Sauvignon, 2023 

Giesen “Pure Light” New Zealand, Merlot, 2023

NON-REDS

Petaluma “Lumos” Adelaide Hills, Sauvignon Blanc

“Billy’s Shadow”, France, Chardonnay, 2023

Baily & Baily “Silhouette series” Australia, Pink Moscato, 2025