Fausto

I am interested in thinking of this character as a container of history. Isabel arrives in Perón’s life after Eva’s death. She always lived and will live with the ghost of the most important woman in our history. Eva the woman of the poor, Eva the first Latin American politician, Eva and her charisma, Eva, always Eva. A young woman with esoteric training in her adoptive family is ready to incarnate Eva. That spiritist character is what leads Isabel to believe that Eva not only existed in flesh and blood but Eva needed a new body, and Isabel could offer her flesh, her blood. Isabel is willing to give up her identity, to leave behind who she is to receive Eva’s spirit in her body. The history of Argentina and necrophilia is from yesteryear. Eva’s corpse was the object of extreme desires and projections. That anatomy expresses much of the history of my country. From a close up perspective with a formalist filmmaking this film will be a representation of a woman as a prisoner of herself within her own body subverts the tropes of political dramas in the history of Latin America.