DIARY OF THE END
Title: DIARY OF THE END
Original title: DIARIO DEL FIN
Section: Panorama Documentary
Director: Juan Alejandro Ramirez
Cast list:
Credits:
screenplay: Juan Alejandro Ramirez; director of photography: Juan Alejandro Ramirez; editor: Juan Alejandro Ramirez; music: Gustav Mahler, Fernando Sor, Robert Schumann; sound: Juan Alejandro Ramirez; producer: Juan Alejandro Ramirez;
Country: Peru
Year: 2009
Running time: 24
Colour: Colour
Format: 16 mm
Peruvian filmmaker Juan Alejandro Ramirez is the poet of the downtrodden, as he has proven in earlier Panorama presentations like PORTER. In this film, technically a fiction but in reality the appropriation of a true story told in documentary style, a woman in Lima, who has decided to kill herself, relates in voiceover the hardships she has encountered, from poverty to rejection. Ramirez has her reenact episodes of a life gone every which way but right. Ramirez's inimitable style might be termed aestheticized melancholy. (H. F.)


















