When an 80-year-old intellectual is confronted with questions of aging and death, she sees herself 30 years before when she faced her mother’s death. The film juxtaposes contemporary dance – through and 85-year-old ballerina and a young ballerina at her peak – with dialogue based on Simone de Beauvoir’s writings on aging and death. The rawness of an old body is revealed, as is the difference between the experience of losing someone to death and the fear of dying. A film about the life cycle.
Lucia Murat
Born in Rio in 1945. Her first feature How Nice to See You Alive (1988) won the best film from the jury, audience and critics at the Brasilia film festival. She also made Sweet Power (1996, Sundance and Berlin); Brave New Land (2000); Almost Brothers (2004), best director at the Rio Film Festival; Another Love Story (2007); A Long Journey (2011), awarded in Gramado; Memories They Told Me (2013); and The Nation That Didn't Wait for God (2015).
