ARG/GER 2022, Part 1: 120 Min./Part 2: 120 Min., Production: El Pampero Cine, Grandfilm; cast: Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Rafael Spregelburd, Elisa Carricajo, Juliana Muras, Verónica Llinás, Cecilia Rainero
A film by Laura Citarella
ARG/GER 2022, Part 1: 120 Min./Part 2: 120 Min., Production: El Pampero Cine, Grandfilm; cast: Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Rafael Spregelburd, Elisa Carricajo, Juliana Muras, Verónica Llinás, Cecilia Rainero
A woman disappears. Two men set out to find her. Both love this woman. Why did she leave? Each of them has his own suspicions and hides them from the other, who mysteriously never really becomes his rival. Neither of them is right – but is anyone? This sudden escape becomes the hidden core of a series of fictions that the film delicately weaves together: the mystery of another woman’s heart, also lost many years ago; the mystery of the life of a rural village dominated by a supernatural incident that no one seems to notice; the mystery of the plain that spreads ever wider and engulfs everything, like the shadows that invade the world after dawn.
This film is part of a larger idea: a group of films where the same character lives different lives in different towns in the province of Buenos Aires. The first film of the saga is called OSTENDE (2011) and it’s my first film as a director. The character – Laura – is always performed by Laura Paredes. And the director, myself, also Laura.
Perhaps too many Lauras.
But what crosses the whole saga is a central idea: a female Sherlock Holmes of sorts lost in towns, keener for adventures than anything else.
A film composed by different kinds of women. Women who chase women. Female detectives. Female scientists. Women who, for different reasons, run away. The cartographies of books as maps to live. Maternity. The conquest of territory. Men in love. The nobility of some men. The idiocy of the same men. The bureaucracy and the flowers. The town. The humans. The animals. The plants. The unknown.
Laura Citarella
