Los labios
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Title / Título (Original)
Los labios
Title
The Lips
Release Date / Fecha de estreno
2010
Language / Idioma
Spanish / español
Country / País
Production Company / Compañía de Producción
Morocha Films
Description / Descripción
Tres mujeres viajan a un lugar lejano para hacer trabajo social. Ayudan, escuchan y acompañan a los desprotegidos. Un hospital viejo las cobija. La convivencia obligada se pone más compleja cuando empiezan a conocerse. La relación con los otros, con la comunidad, también es difícil. Pero a medida que pasan los días, empezarán a fundirse con el paisaje que las rodea. (Cine Nacional Argentino)
Three women at an Argentine bus station. They don’t know each other, but take a night bus to a deserted hospital in the tropical north of the country. This will be their base to offer health care; Coca, Luchi and Noe visit inhabitants of remote villages who are plagued by poverty, hunger and dengue fever. We see a mother with six kids, an unemployed man looking for two small children, a 78-year-old man suffering malnutrition and a teenage girl who is pregnant for the second time - probably by her father. The patients are ‘played’ by people from the local population. Integrating documentary elements in a fiction film has been used in several recent Argentine films; Santiago Loza (Tiger Award winner in 2003 with Extraño) and Iván Fund use it most emphatically use in this dignified, very human drama. When Coca, Luchi and Noe do each other’s hair and lipstick in hospital, it’s obviously set up. It forms a shrill and sad contrast with the harsh reality they meet on their missions of care. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
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Citation
“Los labios,” Cinegogía, accessed April 25, 2024, https://cinegogia.omeka.net/items/show/738.