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Fugue

2024 · 89 min

A slow, haunting journey through memory and grief in the Amazon, blending documentary and drama into a poetic, emotionally heavy experience.

Directed by: Bénédicte Liénard, Mary Jiménez Freeman-Morris
Genres: Drama, Documentary
Starring: Saor Sax, Valentina Linares Gonzalez

Overview: In the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, Saor, a young androgynous Indian, carries a coffin. He is taking Valentina, his lover, back to her native village to bury her. When Valentina left this village years ago, before becoming a transgender singer in a faraway city, people here knew her as Pol. Valentina's past and death remain an enigma. Yet bit by bit, through his encounters with the people of the village, Saor begins to perceive what connected them to Pol. Sensitive to the world around him, Saor, like a Shaman, enters their memories. Saor starts to understand that, like all homosexuals persecuted by Shining Path terrorists, Pol lived in terror. In the village cemetery, between rage and bitterness, Saor attends the burial of Valentina's body. A ceremony that is both a burial and an exhumation.

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Directed by: Bénédicte Liénard, Mary Jiménez Freeman-Morris
Genres: Drama, Documentary
Starring: Saor Sax, Valentina Linares Gonzalez

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
identity
memory
isolation
trauma
Places: wilderness
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	2
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	4
Tension	5
Darkness	8
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	9

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