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Run Kalyani
Country(ies) origin: India
Language(s): Malayalam
Subtitles: French, English
Time: 100 mins
Viewing: Worldwide
First View: Nov 24, 8 am
Available Till: Nov 28 | 8 am
Q&A with Filmmaker:
See Q&A page : Nov 24 at 8:50 pm
Kalyani is a young cook who lives with her ailing aunt in a rundown locality of Trivandrum, in Kerala, India. Each day is the same as she carries on with her life of duty as a cook and carer. But each day is not the same either. As the romance of poetry ignites a passion, as the stories of other worlds stirs a desire, as sharks close in and death draws near, Run Kalyani builds into an intense crescendo of grief and grit, sorrow and strength.
Run Kalyani reinterprets poetic realism through an oblique treatment of crucial social issues and with Geetha’s characteristic affinity for juxtaposition of paradoxical ideas, spaces, performances and music, including an Indian Bolero! And patterns are everywhere in Run Kalyani, be that in the unfolding of the story, rhythm of movement, or choreography of images. These patterns by reflection and deflection form an iterative structure that ultimately, inevitably, breaks the pattern.