THROUGH ERNESTO’S EYES
Original Title: Aos Olhos de Ernesto
Director: Ana Luiza Azevedo
Ficction / 122min / 2019
Portuguese with English Subtitles
Ernesto, a seventy-eight-year-old Uruguayan photographer living in Brazil, faces the limitations of old age, such as loneliness and growing blindness, which he thinks he can disguise. When Ernesto became a widower, he learned that aging is about filling the silences with a spinning record, with the calls from his son who lives far away, with the bank errands to withdraw his pension, with his neighbor Javier’s flying visits, with the wait for a new letter from Lucía. However, Bia, a careless dog carer, storms into his life and upsets his methodical daily life. And Ernesto realizes that aging can be about rejuvenating with the intense company of a girl who is not even thirty years old. And that life and love are possible even for those who are almost eighty.
Q&A with Ana Luiza Azevedo, Director
About the director:
Ana Luiza Azevedo was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1959. Graduated in Fine Arts at UFRGS University/Brasil. Founding member of the production company Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre. Ana Luiza is a director and screenwriter and has been working in films and television since 1984. Some of her main works are: BARBOSA (Best Short Havana Festival/1989), VENTRE LIVRE “Liberation” Best Documentary DERHUMALC, Argentina/ 1995), TRÊS MINUTOS “Tree Minutes” (Official Selection Cannes/2000, Best Short Brasília Festival/1999), ANTES QUE O MUNDO ACABE “Before the world ends”, (Best Feature Kemnitz, Germany and Divercine, Uruguay/ 2010), and DOCE DE MÃE “Sweet mother” (Best Commedy – International Emmy Awards/ 2015). Now she is finalyzing the feature film AOS OLHOS DE ERNESTO (“Through Ernesto’s Eyes”).
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