At the beginning of The Permanent Picture a teenage girl gives birth, gives up her baby, and disappears. Then, 50 years later, a casting director discovers her on the street selling homemade perfume. That, more or less, is the gist of Laures Ferrés’ shapeshifting debut, an exploration of diasporic anxieties in which shades of the director’s politics and personal history gradually emerge with a wink and a smile. The two women, as anyone watching will immediately realize, are more connected than they know, yet this is not a film that pivots on any big reveals. Ferrés is too curious for that, more concerned with the peculiarities of human faces or how anyone might begin to decipher such a connection.
Ferrés was born in 1989 in El Prat de Llobregat, a town on the outskirts of Barcelona where much of this film is set. Her debut short, The Disenherited (a much-heralded prize...
Ferrés was born in 1989 in El Prat de Llobregat, a town on the outskirts of Barcelona where much of this film is set. Her debut short, The Disenherited (a much-heralded prize...
- 8/8/2023
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
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