‘Eternal memory’
Manager: Maite Alberdi
Documentary
Year: 2023
Premiere: 12/1/24
★★★
One of the features that distinguishes the documentary film of Chilean Maite Alberdi, the director of the film ‘El Agent Mole’ (2020), is that Ability to highlight emotioneven to express the work around it, in a genre that often excludes it. They documentaries They are human, they are exciting, they speak to us, from you to you.
‘Eternal Memory’ tells the story of Paulina Urrutia and Augusto Góngora. She is an actress and he is a journalist. They were together for more than twenty years, and eight years ago he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. IAlberdi’s film shows both the beautiful and the most difficult moments of the couple’s daily life (Augusto Góngora died last year). The devotion and warmth in the filmmaker’s gaze lead to the emergence of a documentary that is an extremely touching love story about Alzheimer’s, those who suffer from this disease and those who accompany them in this process. As with many documentaries where the portrayal of intimacy is important, there are some moments that make you question whether this distance from closeness is accurate. Fortunately, this is compensated by the humanity and love of the group.
Based on the political and artistic commitment of the leading couple (such as the journalistic work of Augusto Góngora), Alberdi also reflects in his film the need to preserve historical memory.