Synopsis
“FULL MOON” tells the story of how Esperanza (Beatriz Vasquez) and Pedro (Roberto Moll), two psychiatric hospital patients met and discovered love as a means to face the repressing and authoritative world that surrounds them. They share the same sadness and crude solitude. These two have been abandoned to their own fate, forgotten by the world, except the microcosm enclosed in the prison-hospital. This is the love story of two beings margined from the world, misunderstood and rejected. Esperanza is submissive, Pedro is rebellious. She accepts her condition, he challenges it. The possibility of living a dignifying life arises from this encounter.
If we go beyond the plot, “Full Moon” proposes to unveil the limitations of psychiatry in the context of a Latin American country, marked by a broad crisis with multiple consequences.
In Henríquez film there are no sociological intentions, only a clear mission to understand and reveal the existence of its two main characters and convey the pointless lives of the other inmates. Only the madness of love can save these abandoned lives.
Awards
1992 Public Special Award, San Remo Film Festival.
1992 Best Script, best actress and best actor, Caracas Municipal Council.
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