The sentimental education describes in first person the transit from the youth of Jorge, the filmmaker, to adulthood (increasingly postponed). A traumatic transit, where the innocence of the first days is abandoned based on ruptures and labor and artistic disappointments; where the weight and double nature of the family nucleus is understood, as a repressive entity and refuge.
The sentimental education describes in first person the transit from the youth of Jorge, the filmmaker, to adulthood (increasingly postponed). A traumatic transit, where the innocence of the first days is abandoned based on ruptures and labor and artistic disappointments; where the weight and double nature of the family nucleus is understood, as a repressive entity and refuge.
2020-05-01
5.5
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