Memorias de un cuerpo que arde

Ana is 68, Patricia is 69 and Mayela 71 - three Costa Rican women who came of age at a time when feelings were not talked about in conservative Costa Rica, when sexuality, especially that of women, was heavily taboo. Now, years later, the women look back on their lives and reflect on what it means to be a woman. Only now do they dare to talk openly about their memories, their secrets and their desires. What they tell is poignant: one endured domestic violence, another is divorced, the third talks about her life as a widow. As they tell their stories, off-screen, there is one woman on-screen representing their lives, embodying their physical existence on screen.

In this second feature film, written by herself, Costa Rican director Antonella Sudasassi poetically and beautifully crafted, gives voice to women who were not heard at the time, in order to snatch ‘memories of a burning body’ from oblivion.