major spoilers herein)
During '30s , Tango Music was at its peak of popularity in Buenos Aires and the singer Ada Falcon was the diva among the divas. The tango 'I don't know what your eyes have made me' is dedicated to her. Famous, young and sucessful, there was a general surprise feeling in the public opinion when she decided, supposedly due to a mystic conversion, to sell her mansion, her convertible and her jewels and retire to live only with her mother to a town in the country. Then, the myth began, and reporters try unsuccesfully to talk to her, to know the real causes of her retirement (there were gossips about a love affair) receiving only negatives. The golden era of Tango passed and she's finally forgotten by almost everybody.
Year 2000, Two filmmakers began to make a documentary about Ada Falcon. Most of her movies are lost, and the city has changed completely. In the course of the investigation, they find Ada alive, 95 years old, almost deaf, completely forgotten inside a catholic geriatric. Maybe they were her first visit in years.
The movie works as a nice reflexion about the impossibility of collective memory ('there no exist color images of her famous green eyes') , and the final irrelevance of all(Ms. Falcon is clearly happy talking about her life as a singer, an old lady remembering her youth, but she's still reluctant to say something about her retirement). Ada Falcon died shortly after the interview with the filmmakers.
During '30s , Tango Music was at its peak of popularity in Buenos Aires and the singer Ada Falcon was the diva among the divas. The tango 'I don't know what your eyes have made me' is dedicated to her. Famous, young and sucessful, there was a general surprise feeling in the public opinion when she decided, supposedly due to a mystic conversion, to sell her mansion, her convertible and her jewels and retire to live only with her mother to a town in the country. Then, the myth began, and reporters try unsuccesfully to talk to her, to know the real causes of her retirement (there were gossips about a love affair) receiving only negatives. The golden era of Tango passed and she's finally forgotten by almost everybody.
Year 2000, Two filmmakers began to make a documentary about Ada Falcon. Most of her movies are lost, and the city has changed completely. In the course of the investigation, they find Ada alive, 95 years old, almost deaf, completely forgotten inside a catholic geriatric. Maybe they were her first visit in years.
The movie works as a nice reflexion about the impossibility of collective memory ('there no exist color images of her famous green eyes') , and the final irrelevance of all(Ms. Falcon is clearly happy talking about her life as a singer, an old lady remembering her youth, but she's still reluctant to say something about her retirement). Ada Falcon died shortly after the interview with the filmmakers.