Los Rubios

Albertina Carri

IndieLisboa 2005 •

Argentina, Fiction, 2003, 89′

Who were the Carri? How did they disappear? Blond, brown, tall, parents, revolutionaries, children, activists, heroes, or a fiction drawn by those who recall them? The director uses the camera to reveal actions based upon her parents emotional life, disappeared and murdered during the latest and brutal Argentinean dictatorship. Following the deceitful memory, Carri is able to get testemonies of old friends, old photographs, an actress that plays the director, funny Playmobil dolls and her own fantasies, and this is how she and her crew embark in a search through Buenos Aires’ geography and History, trying to understand what happened. As her parents story is revealed, from the most idealized succeedings to the mundanest, colorful perspectives emerge surrounded by certain conflicts. Impregnated by the myth of the gone, this family picture passes by each person who evokes them, by each image from the past, by each photograph faded by time and memory.