Beyond my Grandfather Allende
La réalisatrice, Marcia Tambutti Allende, souhaite rompre le silence entretenu autour du passé tragique de sa famille. 35 ans après le coup d’État qui a renversé son grand-père, Salvador Allende, premier président socialiste élu démocratiquement, elle estime qu’il est temps de retrouver les souvenirs familiaux, les images de leur vie quotidienne qui leur a été arrachée. Un passé intime qui lui est inconnu, enterré sous la transcendance politique d’Allende, l’exil et la douleur familiale. Après plusieurs décennies de non-dits, Marcia essaie de dresser un portrait honnête, sans grandiloquence, prenant en compte la complexité de pertes irréparables et le rôle de mémoire sur trois générations d’une famille blessée.
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"It's a beautiful story, but it's a true story, and it ends in tragedy."
How do you evoke the individual suffering of a highly publicized account? Allende's granddaughter's relentless efforts to unravel her family's memory have been met with stubborn silence. While some of her cousins share her need to know, others are similarly myopic. To approach the private memory of such a figure is to debunk a myth: to bring humanity back to a man who has become an archetype in the history of the Left. Who owns his story?
But there's more: the suicide of Allende's daughter after exile, the infinite pain of a shattered dream, and the violence of dictatorship. Marcia Tambutti Allende shows immense courage, brimming with clumsiness and love, as she tackles the stubborn taboos that kept her family painfully silent. It's the family photos and videos that finally break the silence, freeing the family to speak out, and enabling them to begin collective mourning for the ghosts that have haunted them individually.
Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
Tënk's Artistic Director
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FR - Allende, mi abuelo Allende
Language: Français -
English
Language: English
- Année 2015
- Pays Mexico, Chile
- Durée 94
- Producteur Errante Productions, Fragua Cine, Martfilms
- Langue Spanish
- Sous-titres French, English
- Résumé court La petite-fille d'Allende tente de rompre le silence entretenu autour du passé tragique de sa famille, 35 ans après le coup d’État.
- Programmateur Naomie Décarie-Daigneault|aucune;
- Ordre 1
"It's a beautiful story, but it's a true story, and it ends in tragedy."
How do you evoke the individual suffering of a highly publicized account? Allende's granddaughter's relentless efforts to unravel her family's memory have been met with stubborn silence. While some of her cousins share her need to know, others are similarly myopic. To approach the private memory of such a figure is to debunk a myth: to bring humanity back to a man who has become an archetype in the history of the Left. Who owns his story?
But there's more: the suicide of Allende's daughter after exile, the infinite pain of a shattered dream, and the violence of dictatorship. Marcia Tambutti Allende shows immense courage, brimming with clumsiness and love, as she tackles the stubborn taboos that kept her family painfully silent. It's the family photos and videos that finally break the silence, freeing the family to speak out, and enabling them to begin collective mourning for the ghosts that have haunted them individually.
Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
Tënk's Artistic Director
-
FR - Allende, mi abuelo Allende
Language: Français -
English
Language: English
- Année 2015
- Pays Mexico, Chile
- Durée 94
- Producteur Errante Productions, Fragua Cine, Martfilms
- Langue Spanish
- Sous-titres French, English
- Résumé court La petite-fille d'Allende tente de rompre le silence entretenu autour du passé tragique de sa famille, 35 ans après le coup d’État.
- Programmateur Naomie Décarie-Daigneault|aucune;
- Ordre 1
