The Last Piece: Essay I

Jun 4, 2022

0h 4m

★ 8.0

Overview

Disrupt, reject, destroy, avoid: At the interrupted rhythm of the broken photographs that a granddaughter has rescued from her grandfather’s hands, the last piece reconstructs the memory of an older man who has decided to leave behind his life impulses to surrender to sleep and calm. An essay on the act of joining our memories, the illusion of remembering and the freedom to forget.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

El Celuloide Producciones

Animalita

The Last Piece: Essay I Trailers

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Cast

Himself

Mario Sánchez Duran

Herself

Silvana Alarcón Sánchez

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0.0

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0.0

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