My Mexican Bretzel

My Mexican Bretzel
dir. Nuria Giménez/Spain/2019/72 min.
place
date
time
Kinoteka, sala 3
2020-09-12
14:15
“My Mexican Bretzel” opens with black-and-white clips of pilots during World War II in Switzerland, subtitled with excerpts from – so we are told – the diary of Vivian Barrett. She talks about herself and her husband Léon, who partly lost his hearing in an accident with his plane and could no longer fly. The couple's glamourous life then unfolds in diary excerpts and footage shot by Léon, about whom we also learn that he developed a successful anti-depressant, and had an obsession with many different forms of transportation.
The painstakingly edited home movies accompany Vivian's thoughts and observations, and more abstract visual material represents her fears, secret desires and tormenting dreams. She frequently quotes the Indian guru Kharjappalli, who keeps her going in times of uncertainty and emotional turbulence. "Lies are just another way of telling the truth. The desire to believe is the hand of the man hanging from a cliff and clinging to the only stone that would seem to save him. But he always ends up falling because the stone is a mirage, just as the cliff is. Death is awakening from this dream in which the essential can be said and in which the continuous and infinite has a beginning, an end and a meaning” – says Paravadin Kanvar Kharjappali.
Sound is used cleverly and with restraint, reinforcing the images or underscoring the emotions. We realise that the viewer is being manipulated, but to what extent only becomes clear at the end.
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  • projection time:
    72 min.
  • country/year:
    Spain /2019
  • director:
    Nuria Giménez
  • pictures:
    Frank A. Lorang
  • production:
    Nuria Giménez / Bretzel & Tequila
  • awards :
    2020 – IFF Rotterdam: Found Footage Award

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