A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING
France/India
96'
- Sinopsis
- Prezentare curatorială
L, a university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover, while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds.
“One of the year’s most electrifying debuts, Payal Kapadia’s hybrid feature A Night of Knowing Nothing is a fever dream of impossible love tied to a broader reflection on contemporary India.”
Press quotes
“A vivid portrait of revolt and oppression, love and pain, and philosophical thought threatened by nationalist agenda.”
Review: Siddhant Adlakha – IndieWire
“An oneiric, sensory and imaginative journey documenting being young in contemporary India.”
Review: Mateusz Tarwacki – Eye For Film
“Payal Kapadia’s extraordinary debut feature A Night of Knowing Nothing is a hypnotic essay about the loss of innocence and the spark that inspires one to fight.”
Review: Pat Mullen – Point of View Magazine
“Beautifully dispatched through its entanglement of formal hybridity, Payal Kapadia’s A Night of Knowing Nothing burrows her contemplative sensibility into the archiving of a contemporary reality.”
Review: Zachary Goldkind – In Review Online
“An essential film that marries formal inventiveness with the events surrounding the political and social upheaval under Modi’s increasingly nationalistic and authoritarian India through the eyes and experiences of young Indians in public universities.”
Review: Aditya Shrikrishna – News Nine
