Carlos Saboga : 2012
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The story of Elisa's return to the past, to the turbulent 1970s, in the footsteps of her recently deceased mother Elsa. When, looking at photos and reliving memories of her mother, she starts to suspect that her biological father is in fact not Tom after all, Elisa travels from Paris to Lisbon to meet the group of revolutionaries that accompanied her mother in the period during which she was conceived. Elisa's strong resemblance to her mother provokes a strange effect on this group of comrades, rejection and attraction in equal parts. One is now a respectable university professor, another has been committed to a mental institution, while another still, now a right-wing government minister, tries to avoid her at all costs. Collective and historical memory of a complex and violent political past becomes entwined with Elisa's intimate and personal memory of her mother, as she is startled to discover an episode in the latter's life that she could never have imagined. Carlos Saboga's first feature premiered in competition in the CinemaXXI section at Rome Film Festival 2012.
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