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Boo, who spent three years at the slum, emphasizes family ties and writes luminously about the daily struggles of Mumbai’s poor.

And, yet, in this painstakingly muted, luminously photographed testimony to connection, nothing much and everything happens — or could.

She handles her instrument like a great soprano handles her voice, with muscular lyricism and a luminously penetrating sound capable of reaching the farthest seats at a whisper.

Reviewing “The Eight Mountains,” which begins streaming on the Criterion Channel on Tuesday, I wrote: “Vast and intimate at once, their luminously languid adaptation of Paolo Cognetti’s bestseller reaches sublime heights.”

Contrary to their name, dark stars could typically have glowed a billion times more luminously than the sun and grown to a million times its mass.