Madrid, 14 jun (EFE).- The love story of Mario Benedetti and his spouse Luz López hits theaters this Friday in Spain, Mexico and Brazil with the documentary ‘Benedetti: sixty years with Luz’, which evaluations the lifetime of the Uruguayan poet following his marriage.
The movie reconstructs the sixty-year relationship between the author and his spouse, via interviews, unpublished paperwork and testimonies from the couple’s mates, amongst them these of the Cuban singer-songwriters Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés and the previous Uruguayan president José Mujica.
The connection, as if taken from “these fairy tales between youngsters who’re neighbors, between one home and the opposite,” was marked from its beginnings by a “magical allure,” the director of the documentary, Andrés Varela, explains to EFE.
Mario and Luz met as youngsters via their dad and mom, a biochemist and a rentier who had turn into mates due to their shared love of artwork.
“Mario enters Luz’s household and creates a spot of consolation, as a good friend first and as a accomplice later,” says Varela, who believes that Luz stimulated the “curiosity” of the author, who needed to depart college on the age of 14 to assist his household financially, however he was at all times an excellent self-taught individual.
Along with being his biggest inspiration – she devoted practically forty works to him -, from the start of the connection, Luz acted as Benedetti’s nice financial, literary and very important help: a piece that, with the essential and gross sales success of the fifties, solely intensified.
“When Mario finds recognition there’s a very nice gesture of generosity on the a part of Luz, who offers up a part of her life to accompany Mario. She by no means meant to be a acknowledged artist or to make a residing from that, however she offers up her creative potentialities to accompany him loyally,” says the director.
Montevideo-Madrid and Alzheimer’s
The movie particulars how, typically, the wage that Luz obtained as a customs official was the one monetary help for Benedetti, who between 1973 and 1985 was exiled in as much as 4 totally different international locations – Argentina, Peru, Cuba and Spain – within the face of threats from the Uruguayan civil-military dictatorship.
The author and his spouse remained separated for many of that point, a scenario much more tough because of the superior age of their moms, of whom Luz needed to handle herself within the compelled absence of her husband.
The return of democracy to Uruguay was additionally that of Benedetti, who agreed with Luz that from that second on they might spend half a yr in Montevideo and half a yr in Madrid.
This association was maintained for practically 20 years and was solely damaged when Luz was recognized with Alzheimer’s, a illness that affected her reminiscence and that Benedetti skilled as a “tragedy.”
“When loss of life brings with it the oblivion of the individual you like and whom you might be devotedly accompanying of their final moments and that individual doesn’t know who you might be… And it was the one that accompanied you all through your life and immediately you accompany that… I feel that Mario was not ready for that,” summarizes Varela.
Luz died in 2006 -three years earlier than Mario-, however her “gigantic and definitive” affect nonetheless lives on in Benedetti’s narrative and, by extension, in common literature and within the hearts of tens of millions of readers all over the world.
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2024-06-16 21:11:23
