Retrato
Director Carlos Ruiz Carmona
Countries Portugal, Spain
Duration 83 min
Synopsis
Photographs of family, memories, landscapes and scenes from daily existence, constituting a portrait of a way of life, of an attitude towards life. A portrait of a generation for whom marriage was “until death do us part”, and who come from a period of misery and oppresion marked by the legacy of the Spanish Civil War. A portrait of a man and women, of father, mother and son, their worries, their hopes, dreams, experiences and feelings. A portrait of identity, origin, memory and life as a puzzle to be deciphered. A portrait of memories that are sometimes confused, out of focus, half erased through which we question the past, present and future, in a continuous debate on life itself. We consider it many times but questions still remain: at the end of the day, who are we? And why are we like we are?
Photographs of family, memories, landscapes and scenes from daily existence, constituting a portrait of a way of life, of an attitude towards life. A portrait of a generation for whom marriage was “until death do us part”, and who come from a period of misery and oppresion marked by the legacy of the Spanish Civil War. A portrait of a man and women, of father, mother and son, their worries, their hopes, dreams, experiences and feelings. A portrait of identity, origin, memory and life as a puzzle to be deciphered. A portrait of memories that are sometimes confused, out of focus, half erased through which we question the past, present and future, in a continuous debate on life itself. We consider it many times but questions still remain: at the end of the day, who are we? And why are we like we are?