Screening of I, THE WORST OF ALL at Cinema Rediscovered

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After a series of remarkable screenings at Ciné Lumière in London, Cinema Mentiré brings to Bristol Daring to Dare: The Films of María Luisa Bemberg, a retrospective of trailblazing Argentinian filmmaker María Luisa Bemberg (1922-1995), celebrating her extraordinary legacy on the 30th anniversary of her passing.

Bemberg’s work was a revelation compared to the cinema made in Argentina and Latin America at the time, both for its formal characteristics (how she worked with film genres, especially the melodrama) and for its thematic and political issues, addressing feminist demands centred on women’s autonomy. She confronted official accounts and what seemed to be established truths, forging a genealogy in which women were inscribed in a history that recognised their work, struggles, and achievements.

The programme at the Watershed will include the UK premieres of the of the new restorations of Nobody's Wife (1982), where a woman reclaims her identity beyond marriage and convention, and I, the Worst of All (1990), based on the life of Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz, a defiant and brilliant nun that challenges power with poetry in colonial Mexico. The screenings are part of Cinema Rediscovered, which runs from 23 to 27 July at the Watershed with great films back on the big screen.

📅 25 July, 2.10pm + Intro by Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha

I, THE WORST OF ALL (1990, 107min)

Inspired by Octavio Paz’s essay “The Traps of Faith”, the film narrates the final years of the celebrated Mexican poet and nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, who, at the age of twenty, secludes herself in a convent to be able to study. Set in colonial Mexico, heavily influenced by the Spanish Crown and the Catholic Church, two powers that often clashed and that shaped Sor Juana’s life: while the viceroys offer her protection, the Church disapproves of her teaching and wide-ranging intellectual pursuits (her passionate sonnets to the vicereine also raise eyebrows). With the Spanish Inquisition in full swing, Juana’s free-spirited genius with a penchant for rebellion and individual thought, spilling over with self-confidence and good humour, will suffer the consequences at the hands of misogynistic and conservative powers.

Take a look at the full programme HERE.

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