A Night of Knowing Nothing

Name: A Night of Knowing Nothing
Genre: Documentary
Released: February 11, 2022
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 87
Cast: Bhumisuta Das

2022

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: February 11, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Bhumisuta Das

Summary: Through fictional love letters found in a cupboard at the Film and Television Institute of India, we meet L, a film student writing to her estranged lover while he is away. Gradually we’re immersed in the drastic changes taking place at the school and in the lives of young people across the country as they take to the streets to protestThrough fictional love letters found in a cupboard at the Film and Television Institute of India, we meet L, a film student writing to her estranged lover while he is away. Gradually we’re immersed in the drastic changes taking place at the school and in the lives of young people across the country as they take to the streets to protest widespread discrimination.… Expand

Director: Payal Kapadia

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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Michael Phillips

Feb 23, 2022

The movie expresses so much, so delicately, about precarious young hearts, the storm clouds of nationalist politics and, most of all, the possibility and necessity of artistic freedom. Read full review

IndieWire Siddhant Adlakha

Oct 5, 2021

This combination of lively image and mournful narration imbues the camera’s fly-on-the-wall perspective with a sense of melancholy. As life unfolds with verve and passion, the spectral narrator, L, exists at a remove, as if she were both present amidst the frolic, and distant from it, her heartbreak leaving her unable to get involved. Read full review

Marina Ashioti

Apr 12, 2022

Through disrupting linear time, Kapadia’s speculative, poetic rumination on memory, political reality and personal association transforms the viewing experience into something transcendent. Read full review

The Film Stage David Katz

Feb 9, 2022

Through its slippery cinematic language and elusive point-of-view, Kapadia depicts a moment happening urgently in the film’s present-day strand––a wave of anti-government student protests and their resulting crackdown––and treats it like memory, which we know operates as anything but a direct mental recording device. Read full review

The Guardian Phuong Le

Apr 4, 2022

Love for the moving image – and love for artistic creativity – marches hand in hand with the fight for political freedom. Read full review

Christopher Machell

Apr 1, 2022

A Night of Knowing Nothing is a celebration not merely of resistance, but also of joy and art as a political act in the face of despair. Read full review

Aparita Bhandari

Sep 10, 2021

Right from its opening frame, there’s a lyrical, dreamlike quality to Payal Kapadia’s debut feature. Read full review

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15KRandomMovie

Jun 21, 2023

A film with a very important message that gets highly diluted by abstract and obscure artistic decisions. The strong areas of this movie are the real footage of protests and the violent reactions to the students. The moments of silence or ambient noises with grainy, dark, black and whiteA film with a very important message that gets highly diluted by abstract and obscure artistic decisions. The strong areas of this movie are the real footage of protests and the violent reactions to the students. The moments of silence or ambient noises with grainy, dark, black and white footage are distractions away from telling the story of student freedom and the continuing societal issues with castes in India. Check out our podcast 15K+ Random Movie Reviews for a more in depth review.… Expand

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