It was a great experience seeing this free screening at the Borges museum in Buenos Aires. I didn’t know anything going into the screening and I speak very little Spanish so there are parts that went over my head, but I feel like I understood the story visually and didn’t need to know all the words to understand the feeling of the story. This is about a girl who’s struggling in Buenos Aires and goes to Patagonia when her friend commits suicide for her funeral. When she gets there to her hometown, everyone seems to have their life complete without her and she has nowhere that she fits. All the while she is accompanied by her dead friend. She stays with her friends parents, visits her estranged dad and his new family, and even her ex who now has a family of his own an a baby. This is about grief and going home, a story I’ve seen before, but now in a country that is foreign to me, but the home of my grandmother. It was powerful in examining that grief, but played out a bit one note for me in not exploring other sides to the character or showing much change within them. It feels like she is regressing to her former self from being home, but not learning any lessons from it. I wish the movie continued for another 20 min to see what she does next when going home to Buenos Aires and how she changes. This was very solid filmmaking especially in aesthetics and direction of the actors. We are up close and in the protagonist’s head throughout and following her grief and tears throughout, so I’m glad it was someone that we wanted to be along with.
It was a great experience seeing this free screening at the Borges museum in Buenos Aires. I didn’t know anything going into the screening and I speak very little Spanish so there are parts that went over my head, but I feel like I understood the story visually and didn’t need to know all the words to understand the feeling of the story. This is about a girl who’s struggling in Buenos Aires and goes to Patagonia when her friend commits suicide for her funeral. When she gets there to her hometown, everyone seems to have their life complete without her and she has nowhere that she fits. All the while she is accompanied by her dead friend. She stays with her friends parents, visits her estranged dad and his new family, and even her ex who now has a family of his own an a baby. This is about grief and going home, a story I’ve seen before, but now in a country that is foreign to me, but the home of my grandmother. It was powerful in examining that grief, but played out a bit one note for me in not exploring other sides to the character or showing much change within them. It feels like she is regressing to her former self from being home, but not learning any lessons from it. I wish the movie continued for another 20 min to see what she does next when going home to Buenos Aires and how she changes. This was very solid filmmaking especially in aesthetics and direction of the actors. We are up close and in the protagonist’s head throughout and following her grief and tears throughout, so I’m glad it was someone that we wanted to be along with.
