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Abrir puertas y ventanas

Directed by Milagros Mumenthaler
Argentina, Switzerland, 2011
Drama

Synopsis

Buenos Aires at the end of summer. Marina, Sofia and Violeta are alone in the family home after their grandmother, who had brought them up, has died. They have to come to terms with her death, each in her own way.

Synopsis

Buenos Aires at the end of summer. Marina, Sofia and Violeta are alone in the family home after their grandmother, who had brought them up, has died. They have to come to terms with her death, each in her own way.

Our take

A late-summer ballad of clashing personalities, Milagros Mumenthaler’s acclaimed coming-of-age debut brings out the unspoken closeness shared between sisters, even in moments of discord. Framed with a keen eye for domestic poetry, a modest childhood home comes to symbolize a state of transition.