Direction: Xavier Bermúdez Cast: Marta Larralde, Guillem Jiménez, Monti Castiñeiras, Rosa Álvarez Country: Spain Year: 2020 Release date: 3-26-2021 Genre: Drama Script: Xavier Bermúdez Photography: Jaime Pérez Fernández Synopsis: After fifteen years Olvido has accepted that her problems are not related to her relationship with her twin brother, León, who has Down syndrome. He could abandon him, but he has accepted that what is really happening to him is that he is under the influence of powers that he does not know and that he does not identify well, that weave around him like a spider a prison of personal dissatisfaction.
Oblivion at one point
“I’m never going to get rid of you,” exclaims the resigned Oblivion at one point in her daily life (resistance?) With her brother, León. Years have passed since, in León y Olvido (the order of the names weighs), we learned about the hard incident to which a dissatisfied woman and her brother with Down syndrome were tied. Less encapsulated than the previous one, everything flows more naturally (Olvido seeks work, gets involved in the struggles of his time; León, more out of imperative than interest, seeks a girlfriend), but inheritance weighs: Olvido has tried to commit suicide, León does not know how to take care of it.
With a patient, close and unconventional gaze, Bermúdez, a veteran who does not lavish himself as we would like, reconstructs a link with one foot on the inevitable and the other on the perversion of games with tricky rules. Everything oozes life from the truth, deeply human restrictions. Both have no way out (Olvido knows it), and even those who try (the woman’s wedding with an impeccable man) seem absurd. A splendid ending, which would have enchanted the Bergman of The Seventh Seal, reminds us that only comedians embody luminosity and the meaning of existence, a glimmer of hope for an Oblivion sinisterly encircled by life.
