SFIFF Film Review: Obaba
Great film! An art school student travels to a small town in northern spain to film footage for her school video project. She winds up getting emersed in the mysterious history of the town. She realizes that she has just been a spectator in life and decides to get her feet wet. I think she had been making art for someone else, she finally finds something she is passionate about and begins making it for herself. She stops trying to find all the answers and learns to accept life. Her experiences in this tiny town transform her. A story about love, death, lizards, mental illness, and finding yourself. Throughout the movie you are taken to various flashbacks from events that happened in the town. Some of the stories don’t seem to be connected until later on. It’s a fascinating portrait of a town.
