Juan Desouza (Julio Chavez), an nondescript businessman, is on his umpteenth routine business trip when he discovers that the man sitting beside him is dead. Desouza, who takes care of his sick father and is about to become a father himself, grasps the opportunity to experience complete freedom of choice one more time. He adopts the identity of the dead man and disappears into nothing, only to start a new profession and a new life. He almost becomes reckless as he rediscovers his senses, his love for a woman, his relationship with the new surroundings. Ariel Rotter does not however just allow his protagonists to disappear seamlessly into a new personality he chose himself. With sober existential realism, he sketches how the businessman learns to take another look at what oppresses him. Slowly but surely, his flight and metamorphosis turn out not to be a way forward but a way back. By stepping out of himself, Desouza gets precisely the chance to re-evaluate the man he had been all along without thinking. The journey outside becomes a journey within.
Film details
Productielanden
Argentina, France, Germany
Jaar
2007
Festivaleditie
IFFR 2008
Lengte
83'
Medium/Formaat
35mm
Taal
Spanish
Première status
None
Director
Ariel Rotter
Producer
Ariel Rotter, Veronica Cura, Christian Baute, Hengameh Panahi, Dagmar Jacobsen