Another View 2010 / Por tu culpa / Argentina 2010
For just-divorced Julieta it’s a common everyday occurrence: her two young sons roughhousing in their cramped apartment. Then one evening everything is suddenly different.... This study of a young mother on the verge of losing her grip on herself and her life was screened in the Panorama section at the 60th Berlinale.
Are we what others see, or are we what we allow others to see? Most likely it is the view of others which delimits our own identity, as a young divorced mother named Julieta convinces herself. This evening is like any other: her two young sons are roughhousing in their cramped apartment. They whoop and shout while their mother makes desperately futile attempts at the computer to concentrate on writing a report for work. Feeling intense pressure, Julieta tries to quiet the conflict but finds it difficult without a partner to help. The tense situation changes unexpectedly when her two-year-old falls and hurts himself. In this story of a mother suspected of hurting her own child, the movie investigates themes of motherhood, guilt, duty, the role of men and women, fathers and mothers.... Despite loving our children, to what extent do we in fact hurt them? This intimate drama, critically distinguishing itself with regard to many aspects of our everyday lifestyles, focuses on middleclass white-collar workers trying to maintain their standard of living. It touches on the lack of communication between adults and the differences in their abilities to love children or merely raise them....
87 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Anahí Berneri
/ Screenplay Anahí Berneri, Sergio Wolf
/ Dir. of Photography Willi Behnisch
/ Music Sebastian Bianchini
/ Editor Eliane Katz
/ Producer Diego Dubcovsky, Daniel Burman
/ Production BD CINE S.R.L.
/ Cast Erica Rivas, Nicasio Galán, Zenón Galán, Rubén Viani, Marta Bianchini
Anahí Berneri (b. 1975, Martinez, Argentina) got her degree in audiovisual media production from ORT Institute and also graduated from Paris’s Institute National de l’audiovisuel. She gained international recognition with the writer-director debut A Year Without Love (Un año sin amor, 2005), winning the Teddy Award in the Panorama section at the Berlinale and 15 other awards at international festivals. Her second film Encarnación (2007) traveled to over 50 festivals, taking awards at, among others, San Sebastian and Toronto (Innovation Artistic Award). In 2008 Berneri tried her hand at theater direction with a production of Nelidora perfomed at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas at Buenos Aires University. It’s Your Fault is her third writer-director feature.
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