Payal Kapadia's 'All We Imagine As Light' has been winning critical acclaim and attention from across the globe and critics circles, especially. The Indie-film has also received a positive response in India, in whatever limited release the film was managed to get. Recently, a moviegoer shared her experience of watching the film and how she managed to do it, with great difficulty in the first place.
Moviegoer's review on Letterboxd
Sharing her experience on a social media platform, she wrote, "Desperately wanted to watch this for months, only theatre playing this is 4 hours from me..."adding how she found out that the film had been released on Disney+ but only in India. She further added that she managed to get a VPN and sign up for Disney+ but that the app required an Indian phone number to do so.
When she got her hands on a virtual Indian phone number, she tried to sign up using that but was unable to do so after she found out that virtual phone numbers are not accepted to sign up on Disney+.
She later hired someone on Fiverr, who got a sim from a convenience store in India, after which the mentioned person watched ‘All We Imagine As Light’ on Disney+.
The post has attracted quite some attention on social media suggesting the length a fan and a cinegoer can go to to watch a piece of cinema that has the world talking.
About All We Imagine As Light
All We Imagine As Light is a drama film directed by Payal Kapadia and produced by Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff. The film has already been celebrated by audiences and critics alike, in the limited release it had. The film also won 2024's Cannes Grand Prix and several other awards, including being in the lineup for the Golden Globes and BAFTAs.