Forty-fifth session, Cine_Ilegal

Film screening proposed by Zuhar Iruretagoiena, followed by a debate.

Montenegro – or Pigs and Pearls (Dušan Makavejev, 1981, 96 min.)

1981. “Why are you living there?” asks a young girl to a monkey in a zoo. “Isn’t it nicer where you came from?”

A grandfather dressed up as Buffalo Bill who wishes he was a hunter on the wide open plains, a father who wants to abandon his wealthy family in Sweden for the warmth of Brazil, children who play at taking over adult roles with established conventions not even their parents fulfil, and, especially, a fed up wife who longs to feel desired and rediscover the pleasures of the body. Montenegro is the limit of desire.

Dušan Makavejev portrays the boredom of a bourgeois world dominated by sexual repressions and shaken by a chance encounter with Serbian immigrants and their parallel world.

Zuhar Iruretagoiena Labeaga (Zarautz, 1981), artist, investigator, teacher, student, housewife sometimes…