The Mallorcan director Marga Melià grants us with One hundred books together a personal, intimate and glowing documentary that manifests the simple act of reading clubs to transform it into An intense reflection on friendship, old age, and the strength that books transmit. Through the meeting of five retired women who evoke and celebrate a decade collaborating in their readings, the film erect A fragile and honest apology for female experience In the last stretch of life.
He moves away from a rhetorical or misleading narrative, Melià selects A simple and familiar approach. The protagonists – Cely, Mabel, Asun, Evelyne and Patricia – symbolize very different features, what it provides to the story an interesting complexity of looks and points of view on life, In addition to emotions. From Celia’s affable shyness to Mabel’s humor or Evelyne’s internal fight against anxiety, each of these women present a natural and true testimony about how literature has not only escorted them during their life, but it has been a tool for self -knowledge, empathy and reflexive union With the world.
The value of the documentary establishes, in large part, a look towards old age. One hundred books together He avoids the act of idealizing its protagonists. Teaches them with their fears, ailments, hopes and inconsistencies, but also with a contagious intellectual thrust. The documentary film manages to represent that stabilization between fragility and vigor of a generation of women who still have a lot to say, mainly when they discover sites such as A reading club where their voices are heard and respected.
The choice of a natural surroundings gives you a representative factor that emphasizes the intimate and liberating character of these meetings. In that scenario, the conversations run between laughs, memories, confessions and, of course, literary debates that manifest the background with which these readers approach each book. Shared reading is shown as a way of vitality, personal consolidation and building of a community.
The film chooses an elementary staging, but meticulously cared for, where the calm rhythm allows the spectator to deepen Little by little in the humanitarian space of the protagonists. Melià, who was also dynamic of the original reading club, reaches prolong a distance between the personal and the cinematographic, supplying the documentary film of an honesty that is warned from the first minutes.
One hundred books together Not only is it a documentary about women who read: it is A reflection on the strength of dialogue, about the importance of attending and accompanying along the way. It is a sign to appreciate the elderly not only because of their experience, but as people of change, culture and reasoning. In a period accentuated by generational oblivion, This film becomes an act of integrity and tenderness.
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