Lies are just another way of telling the truth. The desire to believe is the hand of the man hanging from a cliff and clinging to the only stone that would seem to save him. But he always ends up falling because the stone is a mirage, just as the cliff is. Death is awakening from this dream in which the essential can be said and in which the continuous and infinite has a beginning, an end and a meaning.
Editing
Vintage footage transformed into unreliable narrative puzzle.
Writing
Fictional diary voiceover that's poetic and deeply pretentious (in the best way).
Director
Nuria Giménez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
All footage comes from director Nuria Giménez's actual family archive, making the fictional biography a parasitic act on her own history.
The title's deliberate misspelling of 'pretzel' nods to European art cinema's tradition of unreliable narrators and linguistic slippage.
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