For 80 Days
Original Title
80 Egunean- Director: Jon Garaño; Jose Mari Goenaga
- Writer: Jon Garaño; Jose Mari Goenaga
- Producer: Asier Acha; Xabier Berzosa
CGiii Comment
Utterly charming...
When two elderly ladies meet after more than 50 years...memories and desires are re-visited.
There's a rich humour that runs throughout, tinged with sadness and reality. The loneliness is tangible, the helplessness understandable...this is what happens when - in the winter of our lives - the sun comes out.
Played to perfection - a delight.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Axun and Maite met at secondary school during a repressive era that never allowed their relationship to go beyond friendship. Later on, their paths led them apart: Axun got married and moved out to the country to live on a farm, while Maite traveled the world, clarified her sexual orientation in her own mind, and now, having had a successful career as a piano teacher, she has returned to San Sebastian to take up her retirement. Fifty years on, Axun and Maite, now both seventy, meet up by chance while visiting patients in hospital. At first, they don't recognize one another, but soon long- suppressed feelings begin to emerge once more with the same intensity, and Axun is aware for the first time of her chance to start something entirely new. Feelings once illicit which, fifty years ago, she was unable and forbidden to identify, force her to reassess her marriage and to embark on a journey of self-knowledge.
Cast & Characters
Itziar Aizpuru as Axun;
Mariasun Pagoaga as Maite;
Jose Ramon Argoitia as Juan Mari;
Zorion Eguileor as Julian;
Ane Gabarain as Josune;
Patricia Lopez as Garazi;
Tania de la Cruz as Ana;
Pedro Arnaez Onatibia as Mikel;
M. Josefa Echave as Juanita;
Luisa M. Ariztondo as Koro