77 Doronship

In an apartment in Paris, a pregnant woman waits for someone's return, although everything indicates that she has been abandoned. The one who arrives is not the father of the child but Francisco, the father's grandfather, a streetwise porteño who has lived everywhere and can't go back to most of those places. She only speaks French; he assures he speaks that language. Inside Anne's belly, time is getting shorter. With these two characters (and two more we never see: an unborn one who already causes trouble and the other one, an omniscient and resigned voice-over) the director of Salamandra designs a chamber story; does without any tourist or cultural references and dedicates himself to offering us the building up of a friendship between the comical and the tragic, the result of necessity and desperation. Non-professional actors and dream sequences created a decade ago (as was the original music by Sergio Dawi) complete the mosaic of an unusual film. (Viennale)