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Metaal & Melancholie

Heddy Honigmann / NL, 1993 / 80 min.

For Metaal & melancholie, Heddy Honigmann returned to Lima after 20 years. A loving portrait of her home town’s taxi drivers. She elicits honest answers about their insecure financial situations and lost love. Will be screened from 16 mm.

poster Sweet 16: Metaal & Melancholie (Heddy Honigmann, NL 1993)
Heddy Honigmann uses trips in dilapidated taxis driven by doctors, teachers, soldiers and civil servants to create a loving portrait of others from her home town – passionately, vivaciously – trying to survive.

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Scenes from this movie may cause fearPersons under 12 years must be accompanied by an adultThis movie contains foul language

Director

Heddy Honigmann

Production year

1993

Country

NL

Original title

Metaal & Melancholie

Length

80 min.

Language

Spanish

Subtitles

ENG

Format

16mm

Part of

Sweet 16

Eye Filmmuseum’s Sweet 16 programme celebrates 100 years of the revolutionary 16mm film format.

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