Las Meninas (2008)

1h 39m
Running Time

January 25, 2008
Release Date

Las Meninas (2008)

1h 39m
Running Time

January 25, 2008
Release Date

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Plot.

This film is about what the routine of everyday life can do to the human mind and psyche. It also reflects on the importance of the choices we make and how limited these choices are in the first place. The plot evolves around a family of four. They live in the suburbs, in a strange villa that appears, through a complex game of mirrors, to be more like a piece of installation art than a real house. The main character, who hardly appears on screen, is the son, a man in his thirties. Suffering from asthma and eczema since childhood, he uses his condition to manipulate his parents and his sister. Thus the existence of the terrorized family turns into an endless ritual of attempting to satisfy his whims, and always on the alert for yet another one of his “health crises”. Las Meninas resembles the scattered pieces of a puzzle. It is up to the viewer to assemble them in order to form his very own picture – something that makes the film itself personal and unique.

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Cast & Crew.

Dean Karr

Dean Karr

Director

Dean Karr

Dean Karr

Director

Valeriya Ulyanchenko

Valeriya Ulyanchenko

Young Mother 1

Viktoriya Ulyanchenko

Viktoriya Ulyanchenko

Young Mother 2

Oleksandr Shchetynsky

Oleksandr Shchetynsky

Composer

Yuriy Yaremchuk

Yuriy Yaremchuk

Composer

Serhiy Mykhalchuk

Serhiy Mykhalchuk

Cinematographer

Tamara Podolchak

Tamara Podolchak

Costume Design / Producer

Svitlana Makarenko

Svitlana Makarenko

Art Direction

Ihor Ihnatenko

Ihor Ihnatenko

Executive Producer

Tetyana Moskal

Tetyana Moskal

Costume Design

Ihor Dyurych

Ihor Dyurych

Producer

Myroslav Kuvaldin

Myroslav Kuvaldin

Sound Director

Liliya Mlynarych

Liliya Mlynarych

Producer

Details.

Release Date
January 25, 2008

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 39m

Budget
$850,000

Genres

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This Movie Is About.

twins
mother daughter relationship
mannequin
insanity
family relationships
piano
neo-noir
villa
loop
psychedelic
mirror
cello
psychodrama
paranoiac
eczema
neo-surrealism
non linear
ukraine
house of mirrors
independent film

Wiki.

Las Meninas (Spanish for The Maids of Honour) is a 2008 Ukrainian film directed by Ihor Podolchak. Its title alludes to the well-known painting by Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas. Ihor Podolchak was the producer, screenwriter, and director of this film. Las Meninas was produced by MF Films (a subdivision of Masoch Fund). It was the first Ukrainian film to participate in the Tiger Awards Competition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. As of the beginning of 2011, the film has participated in 27 international film festivals, including 10 competition programs. In 2011, it was included in Top 15 Best Ukrainian films of the 20 years' Independence period.

…Podolchak's film, alongside Majewski's and Bartas's work, appears to be a perfect example for a cinematic or post-cinematic "dream of a gesture" (Agamben 1993, 139) transporting the viewer into a visibly subjective and surreal universe of enigmatic pictures….

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