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Cinema is closed now
Romería
A poignant, personal journey to one’s roots, this film—though set within the confines of a single family—breaks with collective shame and repression.
This time, Carla Simón takes us to Galicia, Spain, to recreate a summer from her own youth. Seventeen-year-old Marina arrives in the town of Vigo to obtain a document necessary for her to receive a student scholarship. This seemingly trivial, bureaucratic requirement brings a family secret to light; it is a testament to a truth hidden for years, a breaking of the conspiracy of silence.
Simón is a master at portraying the family: its hidden structure, its sensitive spots, its rituals, its masquerades. The arrival of Marina, the missing link in the chain of memories and generations, activates a repressed past and internal conflicts.
The edges of this social drama are softened by the poetic, incredibly sensual language of Romería, where different time frames converge, the past—literally—comes to life, and materials from a private archive are woven into the fiction.
This time, Carla Simón takes us to Galicia, Spain, to recreate a summer from her own youth. Seventeen-year-old Marina arrives in the town of Vigo to obtain a document necessary for her to receive a student scholarship. This seemingly trivial, bureaucratic requirement brings a family secret to light; it is a testament to a truth hidden for years, a breaking of the conspiracy of silence.
Simón is a master at portraying the family: its hidden structure, its sensitive spots, its rituals, its masquerades. The arrival of Marina, the missing link in the chain of memories and generations, activates a repressed past and internal conflicts.
The edges of this social drama are softened by the poetic, incredibly sensual language of Romería, where different time frames converge, the past—literally—comes to life, and materials from a private archive are woven into the fiction.