71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Mary Jiménez
Belgium - Peru
Synopsis

She had done the impossible to win her mother's love. She had been the first in school, she had learned to draw and play the piano, she had become an architect... she had done everything in order to forge an image according to her mother's desire. All. Until it ends up being another. Until madness. Until the madhouse. Everything he wanted other than her had led him to this.

For the first time, she now has decided to follow her own wishes. She leaves architecture and comes to Europe to study film. She is convinced that now when her mother sees her movies, she will finally love her.

But during the filming of her first film, her mother dies in an accident. That desire for love will not be fulfilled. It remains unanswered. Ten years later she has decided to tell that story in a film and she returns to Peru to meet the people and places with the camera as evidence.

She was me ten years ago... her mother, mine.

Director
Mary Jiménez (Peru)
Screenplay
Mary Jiménez
Photography
Raymond Fromont
Edition
France Duez, Suzanne Reneau
Music
Tchaikowsky
Sound
Henri Morelle
Running Time
85 m.
Country
Belgium - Peru
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