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SHAKESPEARE AND VICTOR HUGO'S INTIMACIES
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Completed - Documentary - 83 minutes

Previous markets

  • Toronto 2010 (Premiere)
  • Cannes 2011 (Line up)
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Year of production : 2008

Director(s) : Yulene OLAIZOLA

Synopsis

In her debut feature documentary, Olaizola investigates a mysterious nook in her family’s
history, by revisiting the house owned by her grandmother, Rosa Elena Carabajal, on the
corner of Shakespeare and Victor Hugo streets in Mexico City. There, she uncovers the
strange story of Jorge Riosse, who died over fifteen years ago, yet still exerts a profound
and unsettling presence in Carabjal’s life. Rosa Elena remembers him vividly, for his
sensitive disposition, intelligence and his unfailing ability to make her laugh. But she also
recalls his tormented private side, wracked with identity issues, battling schizophrenia
and depression. Most worrying of all, his stay at her house coincided exactly with a spate
of grisly murders of young women in the district - could he have been responsible?

Production

Country(ies) : MEXICO

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