#3. Abrir puertas y ventanas (Back to Stay)
Director: Milagros Mumenthaler
Cast: María Canale, Martina Juncadella, Ailín Salas, Julían Tello
Distributor: Rights Available
Buzz: Officially appearing on my radar twice in the same week (when it was being considered the top contender at Olivier Père’s Locarno and when took home not only the Golden Leopard but doubled up with a Best Actress award to boot. Mumenthaler’s originally titled ‘Absences’ (workshopped at Cannes’ Cinéfondation) is already drawing comparisons with fellow Argentinean Lucrecia Martel — but worth noting is that this filmmaker grew up on Euro cinema and then made the trek back home for her film studies, so I’m dying to see just what kind of fusion we might have here.
The Gist: Set in a bourgeois setting which might recall of Martel’s La Ciénaga or young females lounging around in American counterpart Sofia Coppola’s work, I look forward in seeing how loss is further compounded by the undefined — in a nutshell this is about three young sisters who camp at their deceased grandmother’s estate only to re-examine their own family dynamics via what appears to be a whole other sort of grief. Love how all three characters overlap visually in this two-minute sequence.
TIFF Schedule: Monday September 12 AMC 3 5:45pm
Tuesday September 13 AMC 4 2:15pm
Saturday September 17 AMC 4 11:45am
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