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- TriviaThe release in Madrid (Cineteca) was in 2016. Was only projected 4 days.
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a Sentimental reminiscence
It's a very private little documentary, could be almost called a family film.
Children often disregard their parents' as a full dimensional individual, with their own needs, wants and desires. A daughter, the director, has a rare opportunity with her father, going through his private memoir, old photos and films.
It's in many ways a typical and unremarkable life story of a homosexual man of his generation (he could be considered bi because he married and produced children, but considering his true love objects were men, I think he would be more a homosexual). Little taste of freedom as a young solider in Africa (where I guess he developed a fixation for the 'exotic' men), compromising into a 'normal' straight life back in Spain, mid-life crisis that led him to pursuit a true love 'before it gets too late'. Desires, hopes and disappointments written in a very plain language is read by the daughter straight off the page.
It is a gently bitter story. But the father, who is an educated but not particularly emotionally sophisticated man, lacks clarity and self-retrospection to derive something more meaningful. The little fact that he complains about his young handsome African boys only used him without acknowledging a middle aged European pursuing them could be viewed as an exploitation is definitely a clear example.
Yet, the fact he's got a daughter who took interest in her father's life and made a film about it means at least his life was not all loss and disappointment. I just doubt the general audience may share the same level of intimacy and interest of the director towards her father and stay focused while her camera shows her father having a nap for a couple of minutes straight, for example.
I think it's still an interesting and worthy addition to the archive of collective memory of gay community ... when so many intimate and personal accounts of homosexuals of the past are lost or ignored.
Children often disregard their parents' as a full dimensional individual, with their own needs, wants and desires. A daughter, the director, has a rare opportunity with her father, going through his private memoir, old photos and films.
It's in many ways a typical and unremarkable life story of a homosexual man of his generation (he could be considered bi because he married and produced children, but considering his true love objects were men, I think he would be more a homosexual). Little taste of freedom as a young solider in Africa (where I guess he developed a fixation for the 'exotic' men), compromising into a 'normal' straight life back in Spain, mid-life crisis that led him to pursuit a true love 'before it gets too late'. Desires, hopes and disappointments written in a very plain language is read by the daughter straight off the page.
It is a gently bitter story. But the father, who is an educated but not particularly emotionally sophisticated man, lacks clarity and self-retrospection to derive something more meaningful. The little fact that he complains about his young handsome African boys only used him without acknowledging a middle aged European pursuing them could be viewed as an exploitation is definitely a clear example.
Yet, the fact he's got a daughter who took interest in her father's life and made a film about it means at least his life was not all loss and disappointment. I just doubt the general audience may share the same level of intimacy and interest of the director towards her father and stay focused while her camera shows her father having a nap for a couple of minutes straight, for example.
I think it's still an interesting and worthy addition to the archive of collective memory of gay community ... when so many intimate and personal accounts of homosexuals of the past are lost or ignored.
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- onefineday36
- Jun 8, 2024
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