I'm going to do a shorter piece on A PLACE OF ABSENCE, because I am finding that in writing on the film I want to write about the film in terms of other films that are of a similar nature and that isn't fair. In order to do this very good film justice I am going to strip my piece down and simply focus on the film at hand.
The film is a look at how we deal with the people who disappear from our lives, specifically the loss of people who disappear on their way to a better life while trying to migrate to America, as well as those lost to political violence with the loss of people disappeared during the bad old days in Argentina. The film is focused on director Marialuisa Ernst whose uncle disappeared many years earlier in the political terror in Argentina as she travels with the Caravan of Mothers who are traveling to bring attention to the people who go missing when they try to migrate.
Reflective and personal this is a film that is very much about the stories of the women who are traveling. It's a film where we get to know them and the loved one who vanished along the way. It's a film that slowly builds as it goes, the weight of the stories pushing down on your heart.
I was moved.
Recommended.
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