PERFUME DE GARDENIAS

Showings

THEATER 1 Tue, Apr 25, 2023 6:00 PM
Film Info
Runtime:100
Release Year:2021
Genre:Drama
Comedy
Production Country:Colombia
Puerto Rico
Original Language:Spanish
Format:Digital
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Gisela Rosario Ramos
Cast:Luz María Rondón
Sharon Riley
Katira Maria
Blanca Rosa Rivera Burset
Carmen Nydia Velázquez
Screenwriter:Gisela Rosario Ramos

Description

In 2017, Puerto Rico endured the catastrophic Hurricane Maria, unofficially blamed for some 3,000 deaths. From 2019 to 2020, the island was buffeted by unrelated earthquake swarms that further traumatized an already-shaken population. These events - which are never merely “natural,” given that the island’s lack of services make them far more precarious - inflect the considerations of death and aging in PERFUME DE GARDENIAS, an allegory for an entire island entering a profoundly uncertain era and determining how to mourn its losses.