2020 · drama · biography
Memories of My Father
Directed by Fernando Trueba2h 16m2020
In the polarized and violent Medellín (Colombia's 'City of Eternal Spring') of the 1970s, doctor Héctor Abad Gómez is concerned about both his children and children from less favored classes. After a devastating loss in the family, Héctor gives himself to the greater cause of public health programs for the poor in Medellín to the consternation of the city's authorities.
Our read: Memories of My Father (2020) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · biography entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
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