Hermanas

Two Argentine sisters who were separated, Elena and Natalia, meet again in Texas in 1984. The time between has carried them into different lives, and the meeting becomes less a reunion than a reckoning. The film does not gather the past into a single account; it shows how differently the two sisters remember the same family. It does not explain the reason for the separation in any didactic way, letting it seep out through conversation. The weight of what happened in their country stands beneath the scenes. The meeting fits into a few days and the setting hardly changes. It ends neither in reconciliation nor in rupture but somewhere between the two. Valeria Bertuccelli and Ingrid Rubio appear in Julia Solomonoff’s eighty eight minute Argentine film, completed in 2005.