Four Barefoot Women
(Cuatro mujeres descalzas)
Santiago Loza / Argentina / 2006 / 90 min
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Spanish with English subtitles
Outside, the heat of a suffocating Buenos Aires summer. Inside, four very different women find respite from the weather and their own personal adversities in shared nights of insomnia. As they unveil their common experiences with death, family disintegration, childbirth and love, they find empathy and trust in each other, and succeed in making some sense of their otherwise fragmented and chaotic realities. Loza’s tender and compassionate portrayal of a universe of feminine communion bears imprints of the narrative rigor and subtle observations that characterized his celebrated first film, Extraño (Latinbeat 2003).
35mm print source Bavaria Film International