Memories of a Burning Body review – tenderly conceived docudrama about the enduring sexuality of women
This well-acted film is distilled from the experiences of three women in their 60s and 70s who speak with wit and warmth
Costa Rican film-maker Antonella Sudasassi Furniss has curated a docudrama distilled from the experiences of three women in their 60s and 70s, who speak (off camera, anonymously) with wit and warmth about their enduring sexuality; an older person’s sexuality that modernity primly refuses to recognise, just as patriarchal authorities denied and repressed them as sexual beings in their youth.
Furniss also creates three phases of the same composite character: the older woman (Sol Carballo), a widow who has a happy and sensual relationship with a man; the woman of early middle age (Paulina Bernini Viquez), whose innocent marriage to her first real boyfriend sours toxically into violence as he reveals himself to be a drunk and an abuser; and before that the shy 12-year-old (Juliana Filloy Bogantes), who has an unhappy, oppressive mother. The effect is a kind of fictionalised cine-memoir as the older woman – whom one might at first mistake for a real person, taking part in a drama – wanders about her apartment where primal scenes from her past are then re-enacted.
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