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Abuelos (2010)

Abuelos poster
Directed by
Carla Valencia Dávila
Genre
documentary film
Country
Chile
Runtime
1h 33m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker travels to Ecuador and Chile to uncover the lives of her two grandfathers. One was a self-taught doctor seeking immortality, the other a communist militant killed during the Chilean dictatorship. Through family interviews and visits to the places they lived and died, she pieces together their stories and reflects on family, history, and loss.

meditativereflectiveintimatecontemplativepersonalmelancholicinquisitiveoral-history-like

What happens

Abuelos è un film documentario del 2010 diretto da Carla Valencia Dávila. Il documentario è un diario di viaggio personale in cui la regista si pone alla ricerca delle storie dei due nonni, al tempo stesso lontane e vicine. Remo, medico autodidatta ecuadoriano, voleva avvicinarsi attraverso la sua professione all'immortalità. Juan, militante comunista, fu assassinato durante la dittatura militare cilena affermatasi con il golpe del 1973. Ascoltando le testimonianze dei familiari e delle persone che conobbero i suoi nonni, la regista elabora una riflessione sulla famiglia, sulla storia dell'Ecuador e del Cile, sui luoghi così diversi percorsi nella sua ricerca, le verdi montagne dell'Ecuador e la desolata regione desertica dove Juan fu seppellito in una fossa comune. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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