Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, a prize shared by the film’s three leads, this subtle and challenging mix of documentary and narrative filmmaking follows three women who deeply inhabit their cinematic roles as social workers interacting with members of an impoverished rural Argentine community. Facing desperate poverty that threatens to overwhelm even the greatest reserves of calm, humor, and empathy, the trio moves into makeshift living quarters and records data on the needs of the community, while still taking time for an occasional night out. Presented as part of the Documentary | in Bloom series.
LOS LABIOS
A film by Iván Fund and Santiago Loza
(The Lips, Argentina, 2010, 100 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
June 13 – 19, 7:30pm
Maysles Cinema
343 Malcolm X Blvd / Lenox Ave (bet 127th & 128th Sts.)
212-582-6050 / www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema
Q&A with producer Ivan Eibuszyc following the June 17 and 19 shows.
Maysles Cinema in collaboration with Cinema Tropical, presents this movie in Nueva York.