SO HARD TO FORGET

(Como esquecer)

by Malu de Martino

Brasil 2010, 100 min

Production: EH! Filmes

Cast: Ana Paula Arosio, Murilo Rosa, Arieta Corrêa, Natália Lage, Bianca Comparato

In love, you can‘t win unless you learn how to lose

After the breakup with her enigmatic girlfriend Antonia, 35-year-old English Literature teacher Julia is thrown into a desperate, painful situation. Her life and values have been tinged with unbearable melancholy and her thoughts seem to be reduced to out-of-focus fragments of her memories. Her inner turmoil complicates the readaption to a new life. But throughout this process, she finds new friends like Helena who also struggles with the experience of loss in her live. Julia immediately feels attracted to her. Sharing the same experience of pain and solicitude the two women get closer...

„sensitive and subtle“ - Zukunftsblick

„Helmer Martino excels at building up small events and everyday epiphanies that subtly, almost invisibly erode anger and defensiveness“ - Variety

World Premiere: Rio de Janeiro IFF 2010

International Premiere: La Habana LAFF 2010