Review by asmgodoy

"El pasado" is an introspective and provocative movie that asks us the scope of liberty that we have towards our history. Until which point can we forget what we have been through? Or yet, how do we build our narratives? Forgetfulness is a way of healing our evils. In "El pasado" Rimini (Gael Garcia Bernal) is a young translator who lives a torment when getting a divorce from Sofia (Analia Couceyro), with whom he was married for 12 years. Sofia did not accept the separation. Rimini was a translator and he started forgetting some English and French words, languages he mastered quite well up to them. It adds some more suffering to his life. Hector Babenco, the director, who was born in Argentina. He conducted well-commented movies, such as "Playing in the fields of the Lord". As Hitchcock use to do in his films, Babenco plays a short scene in the movie. Try to find when.