If you get a chance, go see this film. A very moving, highly emotional experience.
It revolves around questions of motherhood, the loss of young children and, what seems like the exact opposite - unexpected pregnancies.
The director seems to have found a way to reflect on the subject through actresses assuming the roles of mothers and daughters. We get to see some live interviews and some live acting, often the live acting breaks up and turns into an interview. The director messes with our expectations (trying to figure out which one is which, who is "real" - an actress explains why using tears as a sign of authenticity will not work), but that's not the main thrust of the film. Reality does play a part in the movie, but not the one you expect (the actresses' role, in fact, seems just as "real" as any other). Being a mother, acting, being a daughter, it all seems interconnected, it flows into one another. One of the women interviewed is called "Aleta", from the Greek "Alethia" - unveiled truth. The director doesn't miss the connection, and asks the actress playing that woman if she is "having trouble with the part of Aleta".
What is interesting, and forms perhaps a third movement inside the film is the role of dreams. Many significant events recounted in the interviews happened in dreams. Dreams that seem to have changed reality forever.
As an axis for the entire film, we get to see one brief interview, dreamy, almost hallucinatory, the only one to be shown to us without the "real" counterpart. This woman had sex only once, gave birth accidentally to a daughter, gave her away, and loves her with all her heart. Her story, just like the double voiced song at the end, perhaps even the film itself, feels both comical and tragic at same time.
It revolves around questions of motherhood, the loss of young children and, what seems like the exact opposite - unexpected pregnancies.
The director seems to have found a way to reflect on the subject through actresses assuming the roles of mothers and daughters. We get to see some live interviews and some live acting, often the live acting breaks up and turns into an interview. The director messes with our expectations (trying to figure out which one is which, who is "real" - an actress explains why using tears as a sign of authenticity will not work), but that's not the main thrust of the film. Reality does play a part in the movie, but not the one you expect (the actresses' role, in fact, seems just as "real" as any other). Being a mother, acting, being a daughter, it all seems interconnected, it flows into one another. One of the women interviewed is called "Aleta", from the Greek "Alethia" - unveiled truth. The director doesn't miss the connection, and asks the actress playing that woman if she is "having trouble with the part of Aleta".
What is interesting, and forms perhaps a third movement inside the film is the role of dreams. Many significant events recounted in the interviews happened in dreams. Dreams that seem to have changed reality forever.
As an axis for the entire film, we get to see one brief interview, dreamy, almost hallucinatory, the only one to be shown to us without the "real" counterpart. This woman had sex only once, gave birth accidentally to a daughter, gave her away, and loves her with all her heart. Her story, just like the double voiced song at the end, perhaps even the film itself, feels both comical and tragic at same time.