Justin Chang reviews Payal Kapadia’s drama of women’s solidarity, a major prize-winner at Cannes that pays radiant homage to a city and its people.
Anu shares an apartment with Prabha , who works as a head nurse at the same hospital. Kapadia introduces them separately, not as friends or roommates; by the time we finally see them in cramped quarters, we already sense that they lead determinedly individual lives. Anu is sweet, open, and gregarious, as unembarrassed to flirt with a colleague as she is to coo fondly over her pet cat.
In a sense, Kapadia’s method of infusing realist fiction with nonfiction touches is an inversion of the approach she took with her first feature, “A Night of Knowing Nothing” , a formally unorthodox documentary about the film-school uprisings that erupted in 2015, in response to Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist regime. The film’s harrowing protest footage was held together by a delicate strand of fiction, involving an intercaste relationship.
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