User Score
2 votes
“El futuro no está escrito.”
In a village scarred by the Mexican cartel battles, Mariah--an NGO worker haunted by her own broken marriage to the town's mayor Martin Flores--meets Colin, a young, reckless freelance journalist. As they fall deeply for one another, a desire for vengeance grows inside of Mariah like a newly awakened demon. Now at odds with the noble ideals of her work, she begins on a war path toward what she hopes is justice, but from which no good can come.
Director
Status
Released
Original Language
ES
1962, at the end of the Algerian War, Algerian independence activists are released from Rennes prison. For one night, filmmaker Yann Le Masson films them. They tell him their vision for the future of Algeria and the place women must occupy in the new society to be built. Fifty years later, with the soundtrack missing, Raphaël Pillosio sets out to find these women. Two deaf people set about lip-reading the women filmed by Yann Le Masson, revealing snatches of sentences, words cut short by the camera's shifts. An investigative film in which the few activists still alive discover their old testimonies and tell us their silent story. The reconstruction of the lost soundtrack will remain in suspense; no happy ending will come to absorb the absence, to cancel the ferocious operation of time. An essay film about cinema that depicts their disappearance, and forever keeps them alive.
