Camera Obscura

Camera Obscura

NAME OF FILM: CAMERA OBSCURA

DIRECTOR(S): Maria Victoria Menis

STARRING: Christopher Denham, Nadja Bobyleva, Catherine Curtin

GENRE: Horror Film

SYNOPSIS: At the end of the 19th century, a baby girl is born on a ship of immigrants headed for Buenos Aires. Gertrudis grows up shy and self-conscious, cast as an “ugly duckling” in her community. She goes on to marry a wealthy Jewish rancher and settles into a life of homemaking, always meditating on the idea of beauty and feeling stripped of it herself. When a nomadic French photographer comes to visit, though, his images allow Gertrudis to see herself for the first time.