BENEDETTI, SIXTY YEARS WITH LUZ

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BENEDETTI, SIXTY YEARS WITH LUZ

BENEDETTI, SESENTA AÑOS CON LUZ

By Andrés VARELA

CORAL CINE / EFECTO CINE - as PROD

Documentary - Development 2021

Mario Benedetti and Luz López met when they were teenagers, he became a writer and she became a public employee.
Together they shared life and Love. 60 years and 80 books later Luz suffers from Alzheimer's, forgets all her past and finally Mario, just before she died...

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Documentary, Biography, Art - Culture
- Countries
- URUGUAY, ARGENTINA, CUBA, SPAIN
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 80 mn
- Director(s)
- Andrés VARELA
- Producer(s)
- Sebastián BEDNARIK (CORAL CINE)
- Synopsis
- Mario and Luz met when they were very young, together they went through life for 60 years until one day, due to Alzheimer's, Luz began to forget. First, the fragments of the past that came to her memory disorganized, then the people close to her disappeared, and finally she did not remember anything else... even Mario himself, who hid his illness from others as if denying it would make it disappear. Finally, she died.
  Although he was a prolific author and immensely appreciated by the people, he spent his last years suffering from the absence of love, who, with no other option, forgot him.
  It is here that the story of this film begins.
  The premise is to reconstruct the memory that fate erased, from the intimacy of love, the central axis in Benedetti's work, which we will go through as a log that guides us through the different stages and events of his life. The asthma, death and exile, the return to a country that no longer exists, friends, detractors, family...
  The nearby voices, the spaces inhabited by images and sounds that witnessed the path of Mario and also of Luz will follow one another to make up this timeless puzzle.