A Slender Smile

The fecund landscape of Kerala is the backdrop to this gently paced yet accute celebration of marriage, place and human priorities. It's a warm, simple tale of an elderly couple in the ebb and flow of their days, resisting pressures to move them off their beloved farm to the city. Larger forces of urbanisation might be at work, but here they don't corrode the spirit. The gentle resistance of the pair is believably played and succeeds - sometimes poignantly - in conjuring an uncluttered way of life with much to recommend to anyone looking in from such a complex distance.