Sight and Sound Volume 34 Issue 10 (December 2024)

Sight and Sound Volume 34 Issue 10 (December 2024) Payal Kapadia On the cover: Payal Kapadia on identity and her brilliant film All We Imagine as Light Inside: David Lynch’s musings, Andrea Arnold on Bird, Ralph Fiennes and Edward Berger on Conclave, archive Isabelle Huppert and the latest edition of Black Film Bulletin Details “Like the neorealists before her, Payal Kapadia is an urban film poet. In Sight and Sound in 1950, chafing against the neorealist tag, Vittorio De Sica argued that his real goal in films such as Bicycle Thieves (1948) was not simply to capture reality but to “transpose [it] into the poetical plane”. He did not see any future in neorealism unless it “surmounted the barrier separating the documentary from drama and poetry”. What swept away the audiences who saw All We Imagine as Light in Cannes was precisely this lack of separation. The meditative and lyrical manner in which Kapadia films Prabha’s story during Mumbai’s monsoon season uncovers poetry in banal, ever