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Jonaki (2018)

Jonaki, a dreamscape of memories

Jonaki, an ode to the past, a dreamscape of memories, a portrait of some unrhymed thoughts. This offers us an indolent visit to the joyful past, where intimacy of love was so pure, through the Leaden and melancholic silence of age. A story of a banished life surviving in the foresaken island of memories. It's an extraordinary work of art with surreal visuals of dark aesthetics. The every visual element of this film: dam floor, mossy atmosphere, brokens stairwells, marks the mood of gloom, which completely resonates with the soundtrack. The noisy silence adds to it. In the kaleidoscopic theatre of dreams, the extinction of Jonaki's lumina drowns us inside the dying hopes of life.

Overall, Jonaki reminds me the backward filmmaking of recent Indian cinema where it completely stands against that and that's why I love every film from Sengupta so much. Though it completely owns its narrative and framing style but here I witness a lot influence of Roy anderson's 'about endlessness'. It definitely deserves a five star but I cut that half mark for that mosquito asmr.