La demora
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | La demora |
| Country of production |
Uruguay Mexico France |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rodrigo Plá |
| script | Laura Santullo |
| production | Rodrigo Plá Sandino Saravia Vinay Christian Valdelièvre |
| music |
Jacobo Lieberman Leonardo Heiblum |
| camera | María Secco |
| cut | Miguel Schverdfinger |
| occupation | |
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La demora (Spanish for The Delay ) is a 2012 Uruguayan film that is a co-production with Mexico and France. It is the sixth film by the director Rodrigo Plá to adapt a short story by Laura Santullo . La demora deals with the challenges that the care of a person with dementia poses to the family. The seamstress María takes care of her father at home, but then abandons him in her desperation. The film had its world premiere on February 10, 2012 during the 62nd Berlinale .
action
The seamstress María lives with her three children and her father Agustín, who has dementia and needs to be looked after by her, in a small apartment in Montevideo . She has financial worries and is overwhelmed with caring besides her job. While she is working and the children are at school, Agustín leaves the apartment to visit his old house. When María comes home, she has to go looking for him in the rain. However, he is brought back by an old family friend who is also interested in María. Since the situation threatens to get over her head, she goes with her father to the social welfare office to apply for a home. However, the officer tells her that they are not needy enough for this place and that it would be better for her father to be cared for by the family. On the way back, the two Marías visit her sister at work so that María can ask her to take in the father. After the sister refuses, María walks excitedly and quickly through the streets, so that Agustín can hardly follow. When he asks her to take a break, she lets him sit on a bench while she wants to buy water. Instead of picking him up, she goes home. There she explains to her children that her grandfather is already in the nursing home and is fine. Then she sends the children out shopping so she can call 911 to report her father so he can be taken to a home. But when two social workers visit him at his bench, he doesn't want to go so that he doesn't miss María. So he stays in his place while it is evening and getting cooler. A neighbor encourages him and wants to drive him to an emergency shelter, but Agustín refuses to agree. In the evening, María wants to bring her father's belongings to the home, but doesn't find him there. She confesses what she did and receives a list of the city's old people's homes from the staff member so that she can look for her father there. María calls the friend who brought her father home so he can drive her. Together they go to the homes, but cannot find Agustín. Finally, María lets herself be driven to the place where she abandoned Agustín and finds him there again. She leads it to the car. With that the film ends.
background
La demora cost $ 1.4 million to produce . The production company was Lulú Producciones in Mexico City , and the director Rodrigo Plá also acted as producer . Memento Films Production from Paris and Malbicho Cine from Montevideo acted as co-producers . Memento Films Production also took over the world sales of La demora . On February 10, 2012, the film celebrated its world premiere at the 62nd Berlinale , where it was screened in the Forum section .
Plá used the Cinemascope method for the shoot , but did not fill the expanse of the images unnecessarily, but rather isolated his figures in space. La demora is kept in brown-green tones and follows a realistic aesthetic. Plá describes the actions of the people with the camera and documents them, but does not describe, interpret or analyze them.
Reviews
Lukas Foerster reviewed La demora for pearl divers with an overall positive tone. For him, "the film denies the talk therapy of the feel-good art house cinema just as consistently as the 'mutually silent' excesses of the alienation kitsch art house cinema." Neil Young judged the film for The Hollywood Reporter . He rated the film as a “powerfully atmospheric third feature” Plás. He explains: "Evoking a range of working-class Montevideo settings - both exterior and interior - via skilled cinematography and sound design, this slow-paced, claustrophobic nightmare is strong on mood and ambience but is let down by some questionable screenplay developments in the second half. ”Young criticizes the book's weaknesses. He doesn't understand why María is acting so irrationally and not looking earlier in the place where she abandoned her father. But he does not make this point of criticism too strong, but comes to the conclusion that "... even if Maria's actions feel more the result of scriptwriting contrivance than organic character development, Pla and his collaborators have crafted a pungently textured environment in which we '' re deeply immersed. "
Awards
In 2012 the film was invited to the Forum section of the Berlin International Film Festival. As part of the film festival was La demora with the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in this section as well as the reader price of the Tagesspiegel excellent.
literature
- Berlin International Film Festival (ed.): 62nd Berlin International Film Festival . Berlin 2012, ISSN 0724-7117 .
Web links
- La demora in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the film on imdb.com, accessed on February 13, 2012.
- ↑ a b Lukas Foerster: Out of breath: The Berlinale blog - Everything familiar is missing: Rodrigo Plas family film 'La demora' (forum) on perlentaucher.de, accessed on February 13, 2012.
- ↑ Neil Young: The Delay: Berlin Film Review on hollywoodreporter.com of February 10, 2012, accessed February 13, 2012.
- ↑ Prizes from independent juries 2012 at berlinale.de (accessed on February 18, 2012).