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  Pyre 2024

  ★★★ Watched 19 Nov 2024

  "Don't worry, Tulsi. These are just testing times. Everything will be fine and we will come out of it" murmurs 85-year old Padam Singh in a soulful performance. 

  Two octogenarians, and non actors remind us that cinema is not enacted but lived. They put their own existence and experiences in the film, which is a meticulously crafted tale about loneliness, will to survive, migration from mountains to the plains and everlasting hope.

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  All We Imagine as Light 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Nov 2024

  Saw another great indian film at @tallinnblacknightsff which won the grand prix at cannes '24.
  A story which on one hand has a female gaze, feminine solidarity and has a class conscious structure which comes from Payal's pro-Marxist leanings. However, on the other, what makes the film beautiful is not the aforementioned elements but rather how she imbibes them into a poetic tale of three women who are stuck in the claustrophobic confines of Mumbai. Only once one of them…

Popular reviews

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  A Summer's Tale 1996

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Apr 2020

  “Friendship is more serious—even more than love.”

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  A Tale of Autumn 1998

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Apr 2020 4

  Matchmaking never works, does it?
  The film proves that love is like wine, let it flow.