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Oblivion

4.9(8)20081h 33m1

Heddy Honigmann returns to her birthplace of Lima, Peru to reacquaint herself with a place and people dear to her heart. It is about a forgotten city, a forgotten history and a forgotten people. With irony as their loved weapon for survival, they have to forget as well, in order not to give way to cynicism, hatred and grief. It is about remembering the old days when life - despite class differences, corruption and violence - was still good: waiters, bartenders and shopkeepers who are fighting a losing battle and have lost everything. It is also about the children who manage to survive by mastering the art of street life and who reveal the country in it's true colours. Just like the dogs they share the streets with, they have no good memories to forget.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
Spanish
  • corruption
  • peru
  • woman director
  • lima
  • human interest

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Netherlands, Peru

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Release dates

  • NetherlandsNL

    • Theatrical23 Oct 2008

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Oblivion was released on 23 October 2008.

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    CookieCutter

    6/6/2014

    9/10

    Not my review, but a review by Sara Schieron on Boxoffice.com (http://www.boxoffice.com/reviews/2009-04-oblivion-el-olivio?q=Oblivion) Dutch documentarian Heddy Honigmann’s last film, Forever, explored the importance of art in people’s lives by interviewing visitors of the famous French Cemetary Père-Lachaise. A similarly simple approach is taken in her newest documentary, Oblivion, but here the subject explore…

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