Made Up Memories

Section: World Cinema
Directed by: Diego Sabanés


Mentiras Piadosas
Argentina, Spain, 2008

Dir.: Diego Sabanés
Scr.: Diego Sabanés
Phot.: Julián Elizalde
Ed.: Alberto Ponce
Music: Rudy Gnutti
Cast: Marilú Marini, Walter Quiroz, Claudio Tolcachir, Paula Ransenberg, Hugo Álvarez, Claudia Cantero
Format: 35 mm; Color; 100 mins
Language: Spanish voice, Hungarian voice over
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Based on tales by Julio Cortázar, the film tells the story of Jorge and Nora, how their brother Pablo vanishes in Paris and how they make up his adventures through letters, draws and presents to their mother; how they protect this world of childish illusion from exterior threats, even at the cost of their personal desires. It´s a film full of words, both spoken and written. Words which mean more in what they conceal than in what they say. It´s also the story of a house gradually dismantled to maintain a dream. It´s, in some way, a ghost story.

„The film revisits the timeless and fascinating universe of Julio Cortazar, which describes the life of certain social circles in the golden ages of Argentina. Made Up Memories is a humourous portrait of a family capable of betraying what they are while striving to attain what they aspire to be.” (Diego Sabanés)

Q&A with Diego Sabanés, director of Made Up Memories: March 27th, Friday, Uránia National Film Theatre, 16.15, after the screening, and March 29th, Sunday, Kino, after the screening!

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