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Oblivion

Name: Oblivion
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2008-10-23
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 4.9

★ 4,9 /10 (8 Votes)

2008 ES 93 min

Overview

Heddy Honigmann returns to her birthplace of Lima, Peru to reacquaint herself with a place and people dear to her heart. It is about a forgotten city, a forgotten history and a forgotten people. With irony as their loved weapon for survival, they have to forget as well, in order not to give way to cynicism, hatred and grief. It is about remembering the old days when life - despite class differences, corruption and violence - was still good: waiters, bartenders and shopkeepers who are fighting a losing battle and have lost everything. It is also about the children who manage to survive by mastering the art of street life and who reveal the country in it's true colours. Just like the dogs they share the streets with, they have no good memories to forget.

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Release date

23/10/2008

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1.1

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Documentary

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Released

Original title

El olvido

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93 min

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Not my review, but a review by Sara Schieron on Boxoffice.com (http://www.boxoffice.com/reviews/2009-04-oblivion-el-olivio?q=Oblivion) Dutch documentarian Heddy Honigmann’s last film, Forever, explored the importance of art in people’s lives by interviewing visitors of the famous French Cemetary Père-Lachaise. A similarly simple approach is taken in her newest documentary, Oblivion, but here the subject explored is that of memory and its influence on wealth, politics and the people of Lima, Peru. Poetic in its structure and humane in its storytelling, Oblivion is poignant, filled with in…

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