A poetic family chronicle in which a diplomat’s daughter and her sisters try to come to grips with the tragic life of their mother.
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Silvia looks dazzling in the old VHS footage of her wedding in the early 1980s—she’s a beautiful woman about to embark on a promising future with a diplomat husband, and a comfortable house to live in. The home videos that follow show more highlights from her life: her first wedding anniversary, her daughters growing up, and the farewell party at the embassy.
Meanwhile, the audio commentary offers a very different reality. The film’s director María Silvia Esteve is the middle one of Silvia’s daughters, and she and her siblings talk about their parents’ gradual descent into a spiral of angry clashes, psychological problems and prescription drugs. By recounting events from their childhood, they try to get a handle on what went wrong in their family. And they wonder why their mother, with whom they had a very close relationship, never managed to improve the situation or leave their father.
Esteve uses VHS footage in an original way, combining it with cut-up quotes, excerpts from her mother’s favorite film, and classical music to construct a poetic family chronicle about memory, powerlessness and keeping up appearances.
Silvia.2018.720p.SUBBED.WEB.x264-gooz.mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 1 h 43 min Size: 1.37 GiB Video Codec: h264 Resolution: 1280x720 Aspect ratio: 16:9 Frame rate: 25.000 fps Bit rate: 1 703 kb/s BPP: 0.074 Audio #1: Spanish 2.0ch AAC LC @ 192 kb/s
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Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)
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