From Mad in Argentina: The film is a beautiful eighty-minute audiovisual poem that doesn’t submit to the fast-paced demands of the audiovisual industry. It doesn’t focus on conflicts or testimonies, but rather on showing the life of actress Valentina Bassi as a landscape in which her son, Lisandro, participates. Ulises Rosell suggests associations and ideas in each scene that give rise, like poetry describing landscapes.
The film features Ulises Rosell’s mother and a friend of Valentina Bassi as part of a different family sustained by tenderness. The film’s theme can be interpreted as parenting because Ulises Rosell, screenwriter, editor, and director, is the partner of Valentina Bassi, father of young Lisandro, who decided to document daily family life to leave him a memento film for when his son is older.
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