The Butterfly

The film 'The Butterfly' is a journey into the intimacy of a woman; her erotic desire; her emotions and fragility. We follow the fantasy and feelings of the protagonist in the symbolic and stunning images, original in their composition, that look partially real partially projections of her mind. The text is minimal because it is not needed, the music emphasizes the feeling of not just watching her but also feeling what she feels, following the intensity of her senses.

'The Butterfly' is a story of a symbolic passage, a transition from a status (undeveloped) to another one (the butterfly), a travel in the intimacy of a woman, in her erotic desire, in her emotions and fragility. After having lost her husband, Anamika visits her grandmother and spends sometime in her village. For the first time she confronts herself and her life understanding who she has been until now, the indecision that makes her incapable to give a direction to any choice she has to make.

The arrival of Anamika in the small village opens a new dimension to her: she learns to discover and explore in the way children do. The world is now not only pain, it is pleasure too. Anamika explores the world again for the first time with a new consciousness and perception: back to the place where she grown up, she experiences a kind of 're-birth' where she touches, smells, feels, sees as if she does it for the first time.

We follow her fantasy and feelings in the symbolic and stunning images, original in their composition, that look partially real, partially projections of her mind. The text is minimal because it is not needed, the music emphasizes the feeling of not just watching her but also feeling what she feels, following the intensity of her senses.

Her new way to watch a man and the natural attraction for him is an effect of Anamika's transition and the result of perceiving herself as a new woman who doesn't judge herself anymore. The film reflects on the power of life: when we think we have discovered everything, we magically see a new chapter coming where things appear us how we never see them and we finally enjoy them as we never did.

Daniela Lucato/Cult Critic/CICFF