THE TIRISIA from Mexican Director Jorge Perez Solano is a splendid film. Impressively sober. Formally impeccable. That makes a very good portrait of the reality of women living in the village of Zapotitlan of Las Salinas, Oaxaca, Mexico.
The Director, who is also from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, introduces us to his central character: Cheba, a woman who has recently given birth to the son of a different man from her husband, who has worked in the US for several years and is about to return to the small village. Soon the husband will be back and she will have to decide what to do with the baby, since they already have two sons and she does not want problems with him.
Cheba must thus confront her own desires, fears and fears and what is expected from her in the isolated village where everyone lives trapped in a microcosm, that is like a large cage in the desert landscape of huge organ needle trees which enclose everything and everyone, forgotten even from God and sick with The Tirisia: The sickness of the soul.
The stories intersect. It's a great crossroad where deception, or tell the truth, and be free is what destroys inside. and so we know life in the village. A visual poetry where melancholy and pain of being abandoned is the engine of the stories.
Great movie. I love it.
