What does India say that many modern films are scenes of the Indian continent’s keys shown on trains? The charming comedy of Jiran Rao Laba (2023) begins with a state of wrong identity in the sleeping train vehicle; Nikhil Nagesh Bhat’s is almost killed (2023) on a high -speed locomotive; The Mumbai metro is a frequent location in the winner of the Grand Prix last year at the Cannes Festival, all we imagine as light. It is easy to see the attractiveness of the Indian directors ’train: It is a symbol of modernity and movement that can be easily faced against the restrictions of traditions and social stagnation.
So it is fixed in the sister of Karan Kandari midnight, which opens with a slow tracking shot inside a train car crowned with a new wedding profile in the wedding veil. Her sleeping husband is so low that he was practically on the ground – a picture of lethargy next to his heat -full wife. The details of their union are left unlimited, but it seems that it has been exposed under family pressure: it is difficult to imagine the health of Oma (Radika Abti) who wants to settle with anyone, at least among all the sad bags of Jobal (Ashok Pathak), who spends the first few weekends of their marriage drunk.
Early scenes, which were largely placed in the dark couple’s room in Mumbai, rippled with nervous energy; The Sverre Skyal and editing article roams the Napoleon StratogianNakis with psychological dislocation of the initial stages of any arranged marriage. During the first six minutes, there is no dialogue at all, a option that plays the marital embarrassment while depending on Candry’s dependence on the camera to do the conversation. But this is not a systematic criticism of marriage or parental. Sister Midnight is an attempt, first of all, to direct the sensitivities of the wild novel, which coexists with its own space.
There is not much plot: Oma is a job as cleaner in a shipping company; It seems that the marriage of the couple is getting more powerful, even suddenly no; At some point-at that time, Oma was bitten by mosquitoes-the film enters the hallucinations, complete with stopping animals. (Most of the Sufi elements of the film play in an urban environment accurately, although without the hustle and bustle of Mumbai.)
Some critics described the movie “Punkish”, and they may take a braid from the title of the title to Iggy Pop and the presence of his songs on the soundtrack, but this plays with the nature of the visual pleasures of the film: rich colors and deep shades, which, along with the exact frame and associated characters, remember Aki Kauraismäki in the most painful.
The film also evokes Roy Anderson, with his fixed shots for people who look in one way or another at home and outside; Wes Anderson, with her framed paintings, accompanied by classic pop songs; Even Chanbara films in the 1960s, in a movie, does not appear in a movie, does not appear without a specific reason alongside a group of cinematic enthusiasm by Kandhari. Filled on Kodak 35 mm inventory with Panavision cameras, Midnight Sister Midnight, always; Any number of her shots look good enough to hang on your wall.
Nevertheless, Kandhari’s poisoning with photo making comes at the expense of thinking about the film’s ideas by making them stick. There is no single scene that leaves a deadly impression, while some elements appear flagrantly superficial: a set of stones – the third -recognized sex – often, but its presence, as in Dev Patel Monkey Man (2024), largely talisman. Although the presence of many viewers as an ancient manpower on soundtrack, it is in the final term, the film succumbs to some of its most distinctive energy to the most easy pleasures in pairing wonderful songs with great pictures.
However, Kandhari has an acute eye for absurdity. Do you repeat repeatedly the question of envy, “What is the whitening cream you are using?” Although it is clear that its paleness is caused by its increasing physical condition. And a hidden snapshot of our hero as a kind of “home goddess” – wiped in the hand, a bucket in the other – summarizes the position of many women in Indian societies: it was subjected to both subjugation and respect. How do you summarize the Kandhari mix of visual creativity and intelligence? Fans may call her lifelong lust.
► Midnight sister in UK Cinemas March 14.