Invisible Children of Love
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| Invisible Children of Love | |
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| Directed by | Shubho |
| Release date(s) | 2003 |
| Running time | 45 min |
| Country | Bengal (India) |
| Language | English / Bengali |
Invisible Children of Love is a low budget (English/Bengali) film by Shubho released in 2003.
[edit] Plot
Invisible Children of Love is essentially a love story set against a small town. The narrator tells the story of his coming into being – how his father (Aniket) and his mother (name not mentioned) fell in love ‘many years ago’. Through many fleeting events and passing characters the story moves forward weaving a complex fabric of the small town life. Then in the end narrator reveals how his father and mother never came together. And that is when one realizes the narrator is an unborn child, ‘an unfulfilled dream’. He is the voice of ‘what could have been’.
[edit] Style & Technique
Shot almost entirely in high contrast Black & White, with only few shots in color, the film has a fast pace till the last sequence (when the lovers are supposed to meet) where the pace slows down contrastingly. The film is characterized by a jerky and sometimes deliberately shabby editing with insertion of ‘random images’ to induce a feeling of the bustle of life in a small town; a strange treatment of passing of time and fragmented characterization makes up for a highly stylized narrative. The narration itself is full of short bursts of digressions going away from the central theme to conjure fleeting images of everyday occurrences in a small town. The cinematography is marked by extensive use of extreme close-ups and low-angle shots which add an abstract quality to the film.
[edit] Trivia
- The film was entirely shot in Santiniketan.
- It features the track Dhulo by the singer Arnob.
