Karen
(Karen)
María Pérez Sanz | Drama, Fiction
2020 | 61 minutes | Spain
An intimate late-African portrait of Danish colonist Karen Blixen, author of "Out of Africa".
Synopsis
María Pérez Sanz builds an intimate, elegant, and delicate portrait of Danish colonist Karen Blixen’s last years in Africa. Better known as Isak Dinesen, Karen is the free and adventurous woman who wrote the extraordinary famous "Out of Africa."
The film focuses on the peculiar relationship between Karen and her Somali servant Farah Aden: a friendship ahead of their time, in which those differences that seem unsolvable (a European woman in a position of power and an African man) are dissolved against an ancestral understanding.
Reviews
"Deep into her life experience" — El País
"Dazzling feature film by María Pérez Sanz" — El Mundo
"Rosenvinge brings her naturalness, beauty, and elegance" — Cineuropa
Citation
Main credits
Pérez Sanz, María (film director)
Pérez Sanz, María (screenwriter)
Egea, Carlos (screenwriter)
Salazar-Simpson, Ignacio (film producer)
Gut, Bárbara (film producer)
Rosenvinge, Christina (actor)
Rodgers, Alito (actor)
Stoffel, Isabelle (actor)
Other credits
Cinematography, Ion de Sosa; editing, Carlos Egea, Sergio Jiménez; music, Christina Rosenvinge.
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Pragda subjects
Activism
Anthropology
Biography
Culture + Identity
Economics + Social Class Issues
Geography
Labor Studies
Literature
Women
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Festivals
D'A Film Festival - Un Impulso Colectivo Award; Abycine International Film Festival; ALCINE. Alcalá de Henares Film Festival; Cinefiesta Mostra De Cinema Espanhol; Seville European Film Festival; Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival; X Festival Márgenes
DIRECTOR: María Pérez Sanz
NATIONALITY: Spain
YEAR: 2020
GENRE: Drama, Fiction
LANGUAGE: Spanish
COLOR / B&W: Color
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School, College, Adult
SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE
AUDIO DESCRIPTION: AVAILABLE
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