María Luisa Segnoret

The painter María Luisa Señoret paints a portrait of her filmmaker daughter, while the latter films the process and walks among the canvases hanging on the walls of her mother’s studio. These movements become a pretext for a journey back in time that unveils the many twists and turns of Señoret’s eventful life.

In this heartwarming docudrama, Chilean immigrant Marilú Mallet strives to make a film about her experience of deep isolation. Her English-speaking husband, a prominent film director, criticizes her subjective approach to filmmaking; her young son, raised in Quebec, speaks only French. Interviews with Isabel Allende and other Chilean exiles reveal a deep bond in this powerful and resonant film about language and genre, exile and immigration.