A film of the simplest and most complex of working worlds. A wonderful visual poem .Araya. was originally produced in 1959 when writer/director Margot Benacerraf (co-written by Pierre Seghers) was nominated for the Golden Palm award at Cannes. She is credited with only one additional film, .Reverón. in 1952. The film is a complex combination of documentary and narrative in the spirit of the French New Wave. It tells the story of one day in the life of a seaside community in the extreme north of Venezuela. The occupants of the town make their living almost exclusively from the production of salt. The salt is mined from the vast Caribbean Sea marshes that extend out from the town. The...
- 10/11/2009
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
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