It’s hard to explain the cycle of emotions prompted by permanently leaving one’s home country to someone who has never had to do it. Pangs of guilt, loyalty, resentment and yearning cha…
and Patricia Pérez Fernández, childhood friends from Cuba whose paths have diverged in the larger confusion of Europe.
As such, “In a Whisper” is not just a story of immigrant alienation, but of intimate personal estrangement, as Hassan and Pérez Fernández mend their distance-withered friendship through the film’s binding structural conceit: a series of alternating video letters, each made in the individual director’s own distinct style, in which they attempt to explain what they have and haven’t been doing with their lives in the time they’ve been apart.
“It’s not the same to face it with a dream, than with nothing to hold onto,” says Pérez Fernández of Cuba, having once held on a little more optimistically than some: Even the brightest, most everyday missives in the film are undercut with a persistent mourning not just for the country the filmmakers have left, but for their belief in it.
Equally homesick and heartsick, but in highly variable colors of anger and exasperation, the two women’s short video letters differ significantly in style: Hassan’s are more straightforwardly confessional, while her friend’s incorporate disparate visual elements and poetic metaphors to reflect her inner chaos.
: A Matriuska Prods., Perspective Films production. Producers: Daniel Froiz, Delphine Schmit, Pierre-Andre Thiebaud, Claudia Calvino.: Directors, writers: Heidi Hassan, Patricia Pérez Fernández. Camera: Hassan, Pérez Fernández, Joakim Chardonnens, Lucia C. Pan, Blaise Villars, Almudena Sanchez, David Rodriguez Alfonso. Editors: Hassan, Pérez Fernández, Diana Toucedo.
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