La fábula de la tortuga y la flor The Fable of the Turtle and the Flower (Original Motion Documentary Soundtrack)
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La fábula de
la tortuga y la flor
The Fable of
the Turtle and the Flower
(Original
Motion Documentary Soundtrack)
Director
Carolina Campo Lupo
Music by
Hernán González Villamil
Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd
Two inseparable friends
face the certainty of death sheltered by the love that unites them and the
beauty of the life that surrounds them.
La fábula de la tortuga y la flor
- The fable of the turtle and the flower,
directed by Uruguayan Carolina Campo Lupo, is a documentary that delicately and
courageously portrays the story of a friendship challenged by illness,
motherhood, and the need to continue living when everything seems to come to an
end.Salva sets up the tripod and clarifies to Carolina: "I want to film
the water with the leaves." Together they search for the shot and focus,
which has lately been something that challenges Salva, Emilia, and Eli since
Carolina brought the camera to their meetings. "It feels like we are in an
ocean," Salva clarifies when he sees the result of the shot. Although at
the time of saying it, Salva does not yet know the sea, he seems to feel its
strength and foreshadows with his words the development of this story that travels
between calm and the worst storms once Eli, Salva's mother and Carolina's best
friend, tells him that she is going to die of terminal cancer."I've always
wanted to try to understand this."
"I
was always compelled to try to understand this force that exceeds us, which I
don't know exactly what it is, maybe it's nature," says Campo. "I
suggested to Eli to film because she liked to paint and I didn't know what to
do. So I said 'okay, let's set up the camera and try to let this help survive.'
I always believe that when one creates a work, it brings a little order to the
universe. It gave me security and a way to be there with Eli. Besides the pain,
I had to focus on bringing batteries and making sure the camera was charged,"
she recounts.
Eliana
is perhaps one of the most vital characters we have seen on screen. Throughout
the movie, always wearing her yellow flower in her hair, she holds the rest up
against her own death, especially Carolina, who is there to be with her friend,
but also – although she doesn't dare to say it – to understand why it is they
who have to fight against this.
"No
one teaches you tools to face death; each person has to discover their own at
the moment it happens. It was intentional that in The Fable... there were no
big explanations about the illness or medicalization or hospitals. Eliana said,
'I am going to live until I die.' It seems simple, but I wanted to build the
film with that logic, to rescue that choice to live until nature says
otherwise," says Campo.
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