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Film screening: "Obaba"

3 February 2010 No Comment

Obaba
Obaba
Film in Spanish with English subtitles

Fecha/Date: February 20, 2010
Hora/Time: 6:00 PM
Lugar/Venue: Instituto Cervantes

Director: Montxo Armendáriz
Duración/Duration: 100 mins.

Producción/Production: España, 2005

Intérpretes/Cast: Bárbara Lennie, Juan Diego Botto, Pilar López De Ayala, Eduard Fernández, Peter Lohmeyer, Mercedes Sampietro, Héctor Colomé, Pepa López, Txema Blasco, Juan Sanz, Iñake Irastorza, Lluís Homar, Ramón Barea

Lourdes emprende un viaje hacia los territorios de Obaba. En su equipaje lleva una cámara de vídeo con la que quiere atrapar la realidad de Obaba y sus gentes. Pero Obaba no es el lugar que Lourdes ha imaginado, y pronto descubre que quienes viven allí están anclados en un pasado del que no pueden -o no quieren- escapar. A través de ellos, Lourdes va conociendo retazos de sus vidas: de antes, de cuando fueron niños, y de ahora, de cuando apenas les quedan ilusiones. Retazos de unas vidas que provocan pasiones, envidias y violencia. Con todo ello, Lourdes intenta reconstruir el puzzle que le permita atrapar la realidad con su cámara de vídeo. Pero siempre hay algo que se escapa, que no se alcanza a comprender. Como el misterioso comportamiento de los lagartos que habitan Obaba. Un misterio que nadie, ni siquiera la cámara de Lourdes, es capaz de desvelar.

A rural drama set in Obaba, a mythical region in northern Spain, where a young filmmaker struggled to capture the feel of the area, which in turn leads to a wealth of self-discovery. Twenty-five-year-old Lourdes decides to travel with her video camera to Obaba, a small town in the Basque Country, to record the comings and goings of its residents as part of a class assignment. Lourdes begins to dig into the town’s past to try to understand its present. However, the more she digs, the more it seems that strange and magical things are happening in Obaba; things that may be related to the odd green lizards that plague the townspeople – and allegedly feed on their brains. She attempts to record the passage of time with her camera, but quickly learns that life’s mysteries are impossible to define or explain and that even attempts to capture them can get in the way of experiencing true wonder.

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