The Streets

A quiet, contemplative documentary that drifts between generations and words, asking you to listen closely as memory and language slowly take shape.

Directed by

María Aparicio

Genres

Drama, Documentary

Starring

Eva Bianco, Mara Santucho, Gabriel Pérez

Overview

Las calles could be regarded as a film about words, about describing and naming, about secrets and confessions, and about language as the matter of memory. In a dialogue between generations, young people are responsible for elaborating the question, and School is the place that tries to come up with a technique for it. In turn, the elderly answer through their stories, which are basically the story of the town. And like the word –which is always a fiction– builds a reality, the film sustains its tone on that intermediate area in which a fictional setting provides the conditions for the pure documentary genre to mark the pace and reach out to people.

How it feels

Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Memory, identity, coming-of-age, aging

Content

Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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