MOVIE REVIEW
FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS
Running time: 120 minutes. Not rated (violence, profanity, sexuality). At Loews East Village, Third Avenue between 11th and 12th streets (pending restoration of power).
The country of Guyana and its once-sizable Indian population are thinly covered, if at all, in mainstream films, and perhaps that's why director Shundell Prasad has crammed so much into her first feature.
The story begins with father Vishnu (Jimi Mistry), mother Meena (Ritu Singh Pande) and daughter Reshma (Melinda Shankar) celebrating Diwali, the Festival of Lights of the title. Thugs attack their neighbors (exactly where the thugs came from is unclear, as are many things in the film), and the family decides to leave. But Vishnu can't get a visa, and so his wife and daughter go without him.
Fast forward 13 years, and Reshma has become a sassy Queens teenager, resentful of her rich stepfather (Aidan Quinn, a long, long way from "Desperately Seeking Susan") and yearning to find out what became of Vishnu.
That can't begin to summarize everything that's going on in this movie — there's date rape, drug smuggling, runaways, stepfamily pressures, how to make a roti. Prasad has a hard time keeping her bulging narrative straight; the twitchy editing, jarring close-ups and bobbing camera only muddle the audience.
She does get nicely sensitive performances from Shankar and Pande, and there's a lot of intrinsic interest in this unexplored immigrant community. But by the time we've jumped from Queens to a Guyanese maximum-security prison, it's clear that the "Festival of Lights" has gotten entirely too crowded.
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