Vivid and feminine power

Shanna 2022-04-24 07:01:07

The film of the Beijing Film Festival just happened to be transferred by a classmate. Billed as a women's film, it focuses on women's lives and emotional connections. The story unfolds between the Ramunda and Augustina families, the three generations of grandmothers and grandchildren, Madrid and the countryside. The story is small but moving in detail. The clip of Raymonda singing especially touched me, and I couldn't help but find the fresh vitality in the dog-blood life and return to the family and the mother body. Fragments such as wiping the monument, killing the father, hiding the corpse, etc. are very tense. Due to Augustina's dialogue, the truth is self-evident, so the part revealed by the mother and daughter's dialogue at the end is relatively dull, and the ending is even more warm and peaceful...

I like the panning motion shots and the top-down shots, and the red and blue-based pictures make a harmonious blend of brilliance and tenderness.

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  • Irene: Don't say that, Raimunda, or I'll start crying. And ghosts don't cry.

  • Sole: Mom?

    Irene: Hum?

    Sole: There's something you want me to do, isn't?

    Irene: Cut my hair.

    Sole: I mean if there's something you couldn't do alive and doesn't let you rest.

    Irene: There are always things undone. Or bad done. And my life has been no exception. Look, I don't know if I can fix them, but if I can, it's up to me to do it.

    Sole: [after a long silence] Customers will arrive soon. What are we going to do?

    Irene: We attend to them. I'll help you.

    Sole: But I can't introduce you as my mother. They all know I'm an orphan.

    Irene: Then I'll pretend to be foreign.

    Sole: Foreign? Where from?

    Irene: ¿Dominican?

    Sole: No. There are lots of them on the neighborhood and they would notice the accent.

    Irene: ¿Chinese? Madrid is full of Chinese people.

    Sole: Who's going to believe that you're from China, mom?

    [Thinks]

    Sole: Something strange. Not very common around here... Rusian.

    Irene: Do wou really think I look more Rusian than Chinese?

    Sole: Yes. Rusian women are just like us, mom. Look, whatever you hear, keep your mouth shut. And it can't looked in your face that you understand us.