Memories of a Burning Body

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Memories of a Burning Body

2024

1h 30m

Drama

Biography

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A 65-year-old protagonist, representing Ana, Patricia and Mayela, revisits memories from their youth when sexuality was taboo, revealing past secrets.

Miriam Balanescu

Sight & Sound

The film is a celebration of its subjects and a homage to the freedom of old age. It’s a mesmeric trip down memory lane that’s well worth taking.

Nov 11, 2025

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Stephen Saito

Variety

Memories of a Burning Body definitely has the power to move when Sudasassi Furniss ably turns most of the other obstacles presented by the sensitive material into strengths.

Dec 18, 2024

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

It all seems so effortless and natural that you don’t at first notice how complex the staging is and how pleasing the storytelling rhythms.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 17, 2024

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Michael Talbot-Haynes

Film Threat

Memories Of A Burning Body has an impressive concept, and the surface is well executed, but there is no floor, just a ceiling.

Rated: 6/10

Jan 15, 2025

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Frank J. Avella

The Contending

Memories of a Burning Body is an unsettling yet enlightening film that defies categorization and celebrates the fortitude and courageousness of women.

Rated: B

Dec 19, 2024

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Clotilde Chinnici

Loud and Clear Reviews

Overall, Memories of a Burning Body truly feels like a conversation lost in time that many of us in the audience were never actually able to have with our grandmothers and mothers

Rated: 4/5

Nov 30, 2024

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Vince Q.

The Costa Rican Best Foreign Language Film offering. A stirring recounting of sexual repression and vilification in the 50s, a lifetime of secret gratification and forbidden memory, and finally, the release of an enlightened final act, sexuality without recrimination. A charming film about the freedoms that come with wisdom and age. The formulaic narration device isn’t my favorite storytelling method: regardless, I found it an important story worth the watch.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

11/02/25

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Synopsis

A 65-year-old protagonist, representing Ana, Patricia and Mayela, revisits memories from their youth when sexuality was taboo, revealing past secrets.

Director: Antonella Sudasassi, Valeria Castro, Juano Damiani
Screenwriter: Antonella Sudasassi
Production Co: Playlab Films, Substance Films
Genre: Drama, Biography
Original Language: Spanish
Runtime: 1h 30m