The Lunchbox

India

A pedestrian premise...a lonely widower's daily lunchbox delivery gets mixed up with another man's and he begins an epistolary relationship with the preparer.

This could have been handled many ways. Here the filmmaker elected a subtle, hopeful but realistic scenario which is eventually left unresolved. There is a large difference in their ages...she discovers her husband is having an affair...the possibility for confrontation or melodrama is present but avoided.

We get a feeling for the flow of life in a large foreign city...the crowds, the daily practices of office workers. We also get longing, nostalgia, disappointment...little laughter.

Well done.

7