‘Heaven is burning’ (2023)
Director: Mika Gustafson
Cast: Bianca Delbravo, Marta Oldenburg, Dilvin Asaad
Premiere: 7/6/24
Punctuation: * * *
In one of the first scenes of the film, one sister says to the other: “How do you start a fight without a strategy?” Her response to the fight was to take off her panties and wipe the blood from her nose with them. This is one of the many descriptive and fleeting moments of a film that works on a light plot and a succession of these key moments, told through certain ups and downs, but above all else, trying to capture a moment in time. the spontaneity of each of these situations, whether more disturbing or joyful.
Heroes Three sisters aged 7, 12 and 15 They often live alone due to their mother’s long-term abandonment. They are definitely survivors. They learned to be. Each goes his own way, but the eldest, demanding a strategy in the fight, always takes care of the others and tries to solve the many obstacles that arise along the way: This could be a supermarket robbery or a visit from a social worker who doesn’t know the mother exists. The trio’s performance will bring a lot to the director of the film. The camera gives itself to them, just as the three of them, especially the eldest, trust the camera, which examines them with at once vividness and subtlety.