El día que morí

Two young girls play together in the heat of the Argentine summer while the twin brother of one of them appears to be lost in his thoughts, mulling over rather morbid subjects such as the fate of the birds' bodies when they die.

I'm not suite sure what to make of this film because I found the story to be almost totally impossible to follow and understand. I didn't get any of the characters or their motivations within this story. If I just wanted to nod my head and walk away then I could focus on the later flashback involving the three children in the woods and pin it all on that, however that is one scene among many and the majority don't actually fit in with that one. It annoyed me because it did feel like I was missing something but try as I might to understand why I was watching what I was watching, I couldn't get it.

At points I could of course see the relationship between the boy and his sister as a rather oppressive one with the boy taking what is the sister's but this didn't explain what came later in the film or the motivation for it. I want to think that some of the failing is on my side of the screen but I cannot shake the impression that a lot of it was to do with Keshavarz who, as director and writer, probably should have done a better job of bringing the story to the viewer.

Too personal a story maybe? I don't know, but I do know that I watched this film and thought it was great to look at. Just such a shame that the material offered me nothing that I could work with.