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Angelina | Psyche Films

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Rituals and memories animate a day in the serene life of an Italian grandmother

In this charming, poetic documentary, Maria Piva, an Italian filmmaker based in London, follows her grandmother Angelina through a single, ordinary day, yet one punctuated by excursions into extraordinary flights of the imagination. As Angelina goes about her daily routine, the objects and sensations that she encounters act as potent connections to her memories, which come vividly to life. The water she uses to wash mussels for lunch becomes seawater at the beach. And then, in reverse, the memory of a bike ride through the countryside becomes schematised and artificial, reconstructed as a…

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