The Delay
- Roxana Blanco: María
- Carlos Vallarino: Agustín
La demora ( Spanish for the delay ) is a Uruguayan film of the year 2012, which is a co-production with Mexico and France. It is the sixth film by director Rodrigo Plá that adapts a short story Laura Santullos. La demora deals with the challenges posed by the care of people with dementia on the family. The Seamstress María cares for her father at home, introduced him but in her despair. The film had during the 62nd Berlinale on 10 February 2012 its world premiere.
Action
The Seamstress María lives with her three children and their father Agustín, who is suffering from dementia and needs to be cared for by her, in a small apartment in Montevideo. She has financial troubles and is unable to cope with the care in addition to their job. While she is working and the kids are in school, Agustín leaves the apartment to visit his old house. As María comes home, she has to go looking for him in the rain. However, it is returned from an old friend of the family, also indicates María interest. Since you threaten to grow the situation over the head, she goes with her father to the social security office to apply for a home site. The officer tells her, however, that they are not needy enough for this place and it would be better for her father to be cared for by the family. On the way back, the two Marías sister visit their work so that Maria can ask them to take the father. After the nurse has refused María is excited and quickly through the streets, so that Agustín can hardly follow. When he asks her to take a break, they can take him on a bench while she wants to buy water. Rather than pick it up it goes but then home. There she explains her children, her grandfather had been in the nursing home and he was fine. Send them to buy the children so that they can call the emergency call to report her father so that he can be brought into a home. As two social workers but see him on his bench, he does not want to go along so he would not miss María. So he remains in his place, while it is evening and getting cooler. A neighbor talked him well and would like to take him to a shelter, but Agustín can not be on one. Evening María wants to bring the belongings of her father in the home, but find him not there before. She confesses that she has done, and gets by that employee a list of nursing homes of the city, so they can find their father there. María calls the friend who brought her father home so he can drive it. Together they search the homes, but can not find Agustín. At the end, María can go to the place where she has exposed Agustín and finds him there. She attributes this to the car. Thus, the film ends.
Background
The production of La demora cost $ 1.4 million. The production company was Lulú Producciones in Mexico City, as a producer also occurred director Rodrigo Plá. As co-producer Memento Films Production occurred from Paris and Malbicho Cine from Montevideo. Memento Films Production also took over the world distribution of La demora. On 10 February 2012, the film premiered at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, where he ran in the Forum section, had its world premiere.
Plá used for the rotation the CinemaScope process, but filled the width of the images are not unnecessary, but his isolated figures in space. La demora is kept in total brown - green hues and follows a realist aesthetic. Plá describes the camera the actions of people and documented, he describes, interprets or analyzes these not.
Reviews
Lukas Foerster -reviewed La demora for pearl divers with an overall positive tone. For him, " the film refuses to talk therapy of well-being Arthauskinos just as consistent as the ' mutually anschweige' excesses of alienation Kitsch Arthauskinos. " For The Hollywood Reporter Neil Young rated the film. He judged the film as " powerfully atmospheric third feature" Plas. He explains: " Evoking a range of working-class Montevideo settings - Both exterior and interior - via skilled cinematography and sound design, this slow-paced, claustrophobic nightmare is strong on mood and ambience but is let down by some questionable screenplay Developments in the second half. "Young criticized weaknesses in the book. He can not understand why Maria is so irrational and not previously studied in the place where she has exposed her father. But this criticism he does not do too much, but concludes that " ... even if Maria's actions feel more the result of scriptwriting contrivance than organic character development, planning and his collaborators have crafted a pungently textured environment in Which We ' re deeply immersed. "
Awards
The film received in 2012 an invitation to the Forum section of the Berlin International Film Festival. As part of the film festival La demora was awarded the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in this section as well as the Reader's Choice Award of the Tagesspiegel.