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Memories of a Burning Body (2024)

★½ — Memories of a Burning Body (2024)

Antonella Sudasassi's second feature (following her 2019 debut "The Awakening of the Ants", which won considerable festival attention in Central America) arrives as part of a modest but growing wave of Costa Rican cinema finding international co-production partners. Shot with Spanish collaborators Playlab Films and Bendita Film Sales on board, the film blends documentary and fiction techniques, a form sometimes called docufiction, to explore how women of a certain generation in Costa Rica absorbed repressive attitudes around sexuality and the female body. The structure draws on the testimonies of real women, with three actresses embodying composite voices that converge into a single older protagonist, giving the film both its unusual shape and its basis in lived experience.

A-Z World Movie Tour Costa Rica I'm sorry but I really didn't understand the massive praise heaped on this film. Maybe it's just because I'm a man and this is a story about 3 women in their younger years, moving through into their older years. The film is staged as a docufiction and I just found it incredibly boring. I know it was beautifully shot but other than that... this really didn't do anything for me. A real let down considering the high ratings.

Rating: ★½ | Year: 2024 | Watched: 2025-06-09

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