Romería Review: Surfacing the Past

Spanish filmmaker Carla Simón’s Romería opens on the ocean, shot grainily on a lo-def camcorder, with a woman’s voiceover describing the different temperaments of the water. The footage is captured by the film’s protagonist Marina in the year 2004, and the words are from her mother’s 1980s diary – adapted from real-life letters written by […] The post Romería Review: Surfacing the Past…