Oriana (1985)
Oriana (1985)
DVDRip | MKV | 658x354 | x264 @ 1235 Kbps | 84 min | 878 Mb
Audio: Español AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English hardcoded
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
DVDRip | MKV | 658x354 | x264 @ 1235 Kbps | 84 min | 878 Mb
Audio: Español AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English hardcoded
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Director: Fina Torres
Writers: Antoine Lacomblez, Fina Torres
Stars: Doris Wells, Daniela Silverio, Rafael Briceño
Maria learns that her aunt Oriana has died and willed her a crumbling and remote Venezuelan hacienda where Maria spent a short time as a girl just entering puberty. Maria goes to the hacienda to prepare the place for sale; while going through her aunt's papers, she recalls her visit years' before. In flashbacks, we see the young Maria trying to sort out why Oriana never leaves the hacienda, what secret may be in Oriana's past, and who the mysterious Sergio was. The young Maria, as she learns things, imagines her aunt's youth, cruel father, and first love. After these reveries within reveries, Maria, now a grown woman, makes one more discovery.
IMDB - 8 wins
A French woman inherits the remote, South American hacienda of her reclusive Aunt Oriane, and while preparing an inventory of the property recalls the summer when, still a teenager, she visited Oriane and tried (unsuccessfully) to pierce the mystery of her aunt's own shadowed adolescence. The first feature by director Fina Torres unfolds in layers of delicate, haunting flashbacks, with the memory of the young girl's visit leading back to the childhood of Oriane herself: her illicit romance with the adapted stable boy, and the violent response of her dictatorial father. The missing piece of the narrative puzzle, when it finally falls into place, not only solves the lingering mystery of the hacienda, but also neatly ties each flashback together, reminding us in elegant fashion how the past is never altogether past. Rarely has a debut film shown such confidence and maturity.
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Oriana (1985)
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