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CAMERA OBSCURA | La Cámara Oscura

Sunday, March 21, 5:30 PM at CINERAMA THEATRE

About the Film

Illuminating questions of beauty and self-image through a feminine lens, CAMERA OBSCURA is the enchanting and inventive story of a homely woman who recedes into obscurity among a colony of Argentine Jewish immigrants. Born on the docks of a Buenos Aires harbor at the end of the 19th century and rejected by her mother, Gertrudis is all but ignored, and escapes her ugly duckling adolescence through flights of fancy. Eventually married off to an older, wealthy Jewish rancher and raising a loving family, she appears to salvage a happy life. When a worldly French portrait photographer is invited to take a family portrait, his surrealist visions reveal the camera-shy Gertrudis in a new light. Artfully blending live action, animation and still photography, CAMERA OBSCURA is a lyrical, inventive film from Argentine director Maria Victoria Menis, who has you rooting for Gertrudis from the start. Nominated for 8 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, including Best Film. Plays with the short film GEFILTE FISH.

PRINT SOURCE: National Center for Jewish Film

WEBSITE: http://www.brandeis.edu/jewishfilm/

EMAIL: jewishfilm@brandeis.edu

ADDRESS:

Brandeis University

PHONE: (781) 736-8600

CONTACT:

Juliet Burch, Film Distribution, jburch@brandeis.edu
Sharon Rivo, Executive Director

FILMS: Last Jews of Libya, The, TEVYE, CAMERA OBSCURA | La Cámara Oscura

Sponsors

COMMUNITY PARTNER: Congregation Beth Shalom & Stroum Jewish Community Center/SJCC