Rodrigo Plá : 2012
The Delay
María, a forty-something, separated, mother of three in Montevideo is driven to abandon her senile father so she can take better care of her children. Her trip to the social security office reveals that she is too poor to afford to put her father in a home, but still too wealthy to qualify for benefits. A perfectly eligible friend who brings her father back from yet another extended wander turns out to be married, whilst the father's lonely wait at a housing estate is leavened by the heartfelt concern of the local residents. The deeply affecting mixture of tenderness and exasperation with which María helps her father shower and dress, quietly underlines what becomes the film's central theme of the intense, painful ambivalence of family responsibility. Winner of two Jury awards at Berlin International Film Festival 2012.
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