When I met my heroine she spoke about things and situations and the way she defined moral issues was strongly linked to her emotions and perception. She is in that transitional period in life when a particular heightening of awareness gains precedence. Before she simply lived and loved, with certain lightness and without thinking too much.
Her story sounded like a patchwork of experiences enlivened with the force of mystery, personal history, beauty and unresolved passions, held together by brief moments of happiness. In all the people that are crossing her path she sees a piece of herself.
When spending time with children, extremely old childhood memories start resurfacing. There was intensity, freshness and force in these moments. As if all the stories she told me are ways for tapping into these buried layers. But strikingly, her story was very much grounded in the present and held together by a peculiar rhythm that only a film could convey.
I have seen the movement of the characters so vividly, and the way the ambience accompanied those movements made me once again aware of how sound can give a more open, more infinite meaning to what we wish to convey, than spoken words.