New Delhi, May 13 -- There is a particular kind of loneliness that doesn't announce itself. It doesn't weep. It doesn't keep you up at night. It simply becomes the atmosphere you inhabit - so long-standing and so total that you eventually stop registering it as loneliness at all, and start calling it independence. Preference. Routine.

Tova Sullivan (Sally Field), the elderly widow at the centre of Remarkably Bright Creatures, keeps to herself and prefers the company of aquatic creatures to her busybody friends. Her no-nonsense exterior masks long-buried pain over losing her husband and son years ago. She has not withdrawn from life, exactly. She has simply arranged it so that life cannot get too close. She works the night shift at a smal...