Memorias de un cuerpo que arde (Memories of a Burning Body)

Film program, CR/ES 2024, 90 min., span. OV + engl. UT

By: Antonella Sudasassi Furniss

With: Sol Carballo, Paulina Bernini Viquez, Juliana Filloy Bogantes, Juan Luis Araya Sánchez

In hybrid form, this film presents the testimonies of three older women in Costa Rica. The real voices of 68-year-old Ana, 69-year-old Patricia and 71-year-old Mayela are embodied in a fiction that portrays their memories, experiences and relationships as well as their approach to sexuality and femininity in a repressive time and place. They themselves do not dare to step in front of the camera, and so the film finds a very poetic way: three narratives, three real voices and the fictional level combine in a unique way to create an audiovisual conversation about taboo subjects.

Constanza Godoy