La plaga / The Plague (2013)
La plaga / The Plague (2013)
DVDRip | MKV | 720 x 554 | AVC @ 1800 Kbps | 81 min | 1.13 Gb
Audio: Catalan, Spanish, Russian AAC 2.0 @ 174 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Catalan, Spanish (embedded)
Genre: Drama, Documentary | Spain
DVDRip | MKV | 720 x 554 | AVC @ 1800 Kbps | 81 min | 1.13 Gb
Audio: Catalan, Spanish, Russian AAC 2.0 @ 174 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Catalan, Spanish (embedded)
Genre: Drama, Documentary | Spain
Raül, a farmer that tries to grow organic food, hires Iurie to help him in the fields. Iure is a Moldavian wrestling fighter, but in order to earn a living he has to work in whatever it comes. Slowly, their personal histories intertwine with those of three solitary women: Maria, an elder that has to leave the country house where she has always lived to join a retirement home; Rose, a nurse from Philippines who just arrived into the country; and Maribel, a prostitute that has less and less clients. The destinies of all these characters become entwined as the summer goes on. The Plague is a film of intertwining stories, that offers a moving portrait of life in the outskirts of Barcelona. The main characters are not actors. They play as themselves after four years of working with the director. This long process has permitted Ballús to reveal the uncertainty and the rebel spirit that underlies contemporary crisis-hit Spain.
IMDB 6.9/10 from 155 users
Director: Neus Ballús
Writer: Neus Ballús, Pau Subirós
Actors: Raül Molist, Maria Ros, Rosemarie Abella, Iurie Timbur
Rated: N/A
Runtime: 81 min
"For her debut feature, documentarian Neus Ballús adds the merest pinch of fiction to her facts, working with her five protagonists on the fringes of Barcelona for four years in order to develop a film in which they, in essence, play themselves.
The resulting docudrama plays out more as a curated slice of life than a straightforward narrative, and finds plenty to say about what it means to pass your time on the margins of a city in contemporary Spain and the nature of home and being away from it more generally.
We follow Maria Ros, Raül Molist, Lurie Timbur, Rose Abella and Maribel Martí over the course of a long, hot summer, captured in all its dusty, heat haze sultriness by cinematographer Diego Dussuel. The film is framed by the story of Raül's farm, where his crops are under siege from a plague of white fly, that cluster thickly on virtually every leaf. They rot away the stalks from within, his dad tells him, breaking one open to demonstrate - it's a thought that echoes through the rest of the film.
Doing donkey work on Raül's farm is Iurie, a Macedonian emigre who is still waiting for his official papers after two years in the country. Once his shift clocks off, he heads to the local gym for wrestling practice in the hopes of beating the best in Spain. "All I do is work," he says, which is true, and the same could be said for Raül, who also might as well be living in a different country to his family for all the time he is getting to spend with them.
They're not alone in wrestling with long hours. Rose, a migrant from the Philippines, works 12-hour shifts at the local old folks' home, walking there and back past Raül's rebellious crops. At the other end of the spectrum lie Maria and Maribel. Octogenarian Maria is about to find herself exiled within the country she has lived in all her life - forced by ill health to move to the care home where Rose works and where her life as she knows it is lost forever. Ageing prostitute Maribel, meanwhile, plays a waiting game by the side of the road, watching the others come and go as she waits for a living to come to her.
Ballús creates the impression of a fragmented community, with the city a place far off, symbolised only by the rumble of the rushing traffic on a distant motorway, travelling at a different speed to these five isolated souls, whose struggles are epitomised by Maria's ragged, asthmatic breathing.
Yet, this is not a maudlin film. Ballús is drawing parallels between different types of displacement but she also connects her protagonists through their stoicism. The characters may be variously plagued by debt, illness and emotional strain but they also prove there is conoslation in friendship and that a single shared chocolate can be more important and touching than a thousand words.
Amber Wilkinson in “Eye for Film”, september 2013.
"A languorous docudrama set in the scorching distant suburbs of Barcelona, writer-director Neus Ballus’ The Plague (La Plaga) follows a handful of real-life characters as they toil their way through one long, hot summer of strife and disillusion. Featuring textured realistic imagery and atmospheric sound work, the film is nonetheless too much of a narrative slog to captivate for feature length, and should remain quarantined in festivals after premiering in Berlin’s Forum section."
Berlin Film Festival in "Hollywood Reporter"
La plaga / The Plague (2013)
La plaga / The Plague (2013)
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