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THE FLOWERS OF MY FAMILY

LAS FLORES DE MI FAMILIA

By Juan Ignacio FERNÁNDEZ HOPPE

LOBO HOMBRE - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2012

90-year-old Nivia and 64-year-old Alicia have to stop living together, after 20 years, so that Alicia is free to get married. Alicia wants to send Nivia to an elder care facility; Nivia says that she is trying to get rid of her. Alicia must choose between her mother or starting a new life.

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Documentary, First film
- Countries
- URUGUAY
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Duration
- 75 mn
- Director(s)
- Juan Ignacio FERNÁNDEZ HOPPE
- Writer(s)
- Juan Ignacio FERNÁNDEZ HOPPE
- Cast
- Alicia HOPPE, Nivia QUINTANA,
- Producer(s)
- Carolina CAMPO LUPO, Juan Ignacio FERNÁNDEZ HOPPE,
- Synopsis
- 90-year-old Nivia faces an unexpected change. Her daughter Alicia, whom Nivia has lived with for ages, has found a new husband after years of widowhood and understandably wants to move in with him. Nivia disapprove of the relationship and accuses her daughter of abandoning her. Both women embark on a profound and revealing journey where the longing for a new love and the fear of growing old alone inevitably lead to a clash between mother and daughter. The director, Nivia's grandson and Alicia's son, managed to capture in an almost invisible way – as if in a work of fiction – the inevitable sorrow caused by a separation which, nevertheless, took place in a garden where flowers never wither, a dog turns out to be the best psychologist and an annoying pigeon seems to be announcing a miracle.