This film is splashed with creative pieces of animation and surrealist photography intertwined with the plot. Based on the short story "La cámara oscura" by Angélica Gorodischer, the film takes us back to the end of the 19th century and to the life of Gertrudis, a woman who lived in an Argentinian Jewish community in Entre Ríos. Born to a refugee family, neglected by her mother who considered her ugly, and ignored by her husband and her children, Gertrudis nonetheless creates beauty in everything she does.

María José Domínguez

Arizona State University