Solitary Fragments
NEW HORIZONS International Competition
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La soledad
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dir. Jaime Rosales
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Spain 2007
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133’ |
Film description
Cast:
Sonia Almarcha (Adela), Petra Martinez (Antonia), Maria Bazán (Helena), Luis Bermejo (Alberto), Juan Margallo (Padre)
Thirty-five-year-old single mother Adela leaves behind her pastoral Basque setting and moves to Madrid. She takes an unfulfilling but adequate job to support her new life, in which everything is centered around her infant son. A terrorist attack on a bus will shatter her life and she will have to eventually accept returning to a new daily routine …
Antonia owns a small supermarket. The handsome widow leads a quiet life centered around work, her boyfriend Manolo and her beloved daughters, Inés, Nieves and Helena. The already tense relationship between the three daughters is further complicated when Helena asks to borrow money from her mother to buy a new flat…
IFF Cannes 2007
A need to share with an audience certain concerns and some anguish as well. Death is somehow at the heart of that anguish. We are designed both to suffer and to overcome suffering. We are beings both sensitive and tough, although in the end, our toughness is greater than our sensitivity. The film portrays vulnerable moments in the lives of the characters. In the end, life continues its course over time.
Jaime Rosales
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