The writer, actress and playwright Camilla Fabbri is inspired by his book The day they turned out the lightwith relatives’ stories about life after the Cro-Mañón tragedy, for his debut as a director. Clara gets lost in the forest follows a young survivor who, two decades after the tragedy, travels with her boyfriend to her family’s country home.
Clara blanches Miguel’s past in the car, regulation bangs and all, as she shouts, in front of her companion’s perplexed gaze, almost without thinkingfrom Intoxicados, which is broadcast on the radio.
Clara listens to Martina, a teenage friend, tell her about her dream of both being pregnant and giving birth at the same time in a WhatsApp audio, which serves as a starting point for ideas about future motherhood and a review of the fateful Callejeros recital they shared…
Blacksmiths constructs, from a sum of cartoons, two narrative lines: the first focused on the tense relationship that Clara maintains with Miguel, her mother, her brother, her sister-in-law and her nephew at home, while she films the family’s daily life with her portable camera, and the other based on a succession of stories of friends in voice messages, with memories of the dangers of the busy teenager marked by tragedy, which the director usually illustrates with precious archive images of youthful life at the beginning of the millennium.
Clara gets lost in the forest It’s a movie about living with the signs of adolescence in order to face adult life. The protagonist’s face lights up only when she sings one of the songs from Intoxicados which in the film sound like an idealisation of that adolescence which was truncated and which still prevents her from growing too much, like that fringe which today barely touches her eyebrows .
Martina immediately shows her disinterest in remembering the night spent with Clara in Cromañón and tells her friend that she is pregnant. she that she accelerates Clara’s reflection on a possible motherhood and she delves into the need to analyze that girl who was an obligatory step before starting to think about her mother who could be her in some time.
“Clara gets lost in the forest.” Camila Fabbri’s film has a lot of Argentine rock.The protagonist’s friend also asks her, in another of the many messages they exchange, if Miguel’s family doesn’t mind being filmed constantly and reminds her of a quote from Leila Guerriero who asks “do they have something to say”.
Clara is confronted by her sister-in-law during a walk in the woods because “you should have something more concrete before filming so many strange people.” Clara needs, like Fabbri, to escape from the sum of the situations caused by this wandering and to question herself about her insecurities. The camera serves, for the protagonist and the director, as a means of rehearsing capture something from a world still unfathomable to them.
Fabbri demonstrates his interest in the aftermath of fires, both through audio recordings of his characters surviving the tragedy, and through a shocking forest fire, which serves to show Clara that another relationship with the fire of the past is possible.
The time it takes to deal with the pain is crucial in a film that ends with the voice of Pity Álvarez singing that “when you can be alone with yourself, you will be the king of a new kingdom that has just arisen”.
WhatsApp messages, one of director Camila Fabbri’s resources in “Clara gets lost in the woods”.File
Clara gets lost in the forest
Qualification: Well
Drama. Argentina. 2023, 86′. SAM 13. Address: Camila Fabbri With: Camila Peralta, Agustín Gagliardi, Julián Larquier Tellarini, Florencia Gómez García Rooms: Cinema Gaumont
Source: Clarin
