Agnes, taken for granted as a suburban mother, discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles which unexpectedly draws her into a new world - where her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined.
Yogi and Jaya, who have polar opposite personalities and sensibilities, meet via a online dating app. This encounter turns into so much more when the two travel to Rishikesh.
Director:
Tanuja Chandra
Stars:
Irrfan Khan,
Parvathy Thiruvothu,
Bajrangbali Singh
Following WWII, the Dutch judge Röling becomes one of the eleven Allied judges on the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. The political, professional, and personal conflicts cause this to be the most important of his life.
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.
Director:
Ritesh Batra
Stars:
Irrfan Khan,
Nimrat Kaur,
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
Agnes, taken for granted as a suburban mother, discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles which unexpectedly draws her into a new world - where her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined.
When a person initially dumps the pieces of a puzzle onto a table (and turns over the pieces that landed image-side down), the puzzle pieces are never all in the correct orientation for the image being built. When Agnes places pieces into puzzles, she rarely-if ever-turns them at all, nor does she turn her hand and arm into odd contortions to place pieces that would otherwise have to be rotated upside-down. See more »
Quotes
Agnes:
I don't know why someone like you would find me interesting.
Robert:
You are modest and strange and beautiful and funny.
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"When you complete a puzzle, you know that you have made all of the right choices." Robert (Irrfan Khan)
Puzzle's metaphor is easy enough: Middle-aged Agnes (Kelly Macdonald) needs to fit the pieces of her life together to become fulfilled. However, this small, lovely, poignant drama/ romance reveals that solving a 1000 piece puzzle is a piece of cake next to the puzzle of one's life.
Agnes is chief cook and bottle washer and everything else for the three men in her life: husband, garage mechanic Louie (David Denman) and sons Gabe (Austin Abrams) and Ziggy (Bubba Weller). This demure, loving Catholic lady doesn't yet know how much she needs change, symbolized by the puzzle she speeds through, a birthday gift at her own party, which she organized and decorated. One of the film's revelations is that the party is for herself, not someone else.
As change agent, the puzzle reveals her exceptional talent and mind that puts the pieces together at warp speed. Also, she discovers a love for her sleepy-eyed competition partner, Robert. The film's minimalism shows this emotion not through grand moments but little ones that lead to a slow recognition that the pieces of love fit nicely, thank you, on an emotional level. On the sexual side, the understating Agnes tells her husband that the onetime Robert and she had sex, "It wasn't great, but not bad either."
In this fine example of incremental exposition, the puzzling parts of life such as with her husband show him to be caring and simple but ultimately not enough for Agnes's burgeoning intellect and emotions. Humanity is the name of the real game here, and Agnes is now ready for a ride as she takes the train to a long desired place that's on the train line and in her heart.
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"When you complete a puzzle, you know that you have made all of the right choices." Robert (Irrfan Khan)
Puzzle's metaphor is easy enough: Middle-aged Agnes (Kelly Macdonald) needs to fit the pieces of her life together to become fulfilled. However, this small, lovely, poignant drama/ romance reveals that solving a 1000 piece puzzle is a piece of cake next to the puzzle of one's life.
Agnes is chief cook and bottle washer and everything else for the three men in her life: husband, garage mechanic Louie (David Denman) and sons Gabe (Austin Abrams) and Ziggy (Bubba Weller). This demure, loving Catholic lady doesn't yet know how much she needs change, symbolized by the puzzle she speeds through, a birthday gift at her own party, which she organized and decorated. One of the film's revelations is that the party is for herself, not someone else.
As change agent, the puzzle reveals her exceptional talent and mind that puts the pieces together at warp speed. Also, she discovers a love for her sleepy-eyed competition partner, Robert. The film's minimalism shows this emotion not through grand moments but little ones that lead to a slow recognition that the pieces of love fit nicely, thank you, on an emotional level. On the sexual side, the understating Agnes tells her husband that the onetime Robert and she had sex, "It wasn't great, but not bad either."
In this fine example of incremental exposition, the puzzling parts of life such as with her husband show him to be caring and simple but ultimately not enough for Agnes's burgeoning intellect and emotions. Humanity is the name of the real game here, and Agnes is now ready for a ride as she takes the train to a long desired place that's on the train line and in her heart.