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Note of intent

In 2004, I went to live in London. One thing that surprised me was how open society was in this city. Going from Chile, a very conservative country, I was impressed by the way people expressed themselves freely. Many of my friends were gay. Several left their countries looking for a more inclusive society. Most of them were discriminated by their own families. The idea of making this story was born from this experience. I am interested in dealing with this topic with a mix of drama and comedy, showing the psychological problem suffered by the homophobe.

Synopsis

Valentín and María have been married for 39 years. They run a pharmacy as a family business. He is a bitter pharmaceutical chemist, while she is a kind therapist dedicated to Bach flowers remedies.
They both have a daily routine until María suffers a heart attack that leaves her very weak. In this new scenario, María demands to be taken care of by her son Antonio, who lives in Brazil and whom she has not seen for more than ten years, due to the bad father and son’s relationship. Valentín does not agree with the idea, but accepts it. Valentín and Antonio’s reunion is less tense than expected until Antonio’s partner, Camilo, decides to come to visit Chile and María expresses her desire to meet him. Valentín prepares himself a cocktail of anxiolytics, but after realizing that Camilo is a friendly Brazilian of his own age, he begins to experience feelings of rejection, frustration and confusion.

Visual concept

This film is designed to convey the psyche and the change experienced by its protagonist. He moved from a rigid and paranoid mind to the flexibility of sincere acceptance. In this case, a 70 year-old man hits rock bottom in his repressed life, to look at reality with a different perspective. The idea is to move from inside out, in a tone of drama and comedy that is based on human relationships and identification with the characters. The staging emphasizes the direction of art and a simple camera language at the service of the story.