Momentos
Argentina, 1981. 89 min. Directed by Maria Luisa
Bemberg
Lucia,
a childless middle-aged landscape architect is comfortably married when,
for professional reasons, she meets Nicolas, a seductive young man who
is also married and has two children. He falls madly in love with her
and little by little, Lucia finds herself reliving those forgotten years
of passionate love she experienced with her short-lived first marriage.
Academy Award-nominated Maria Luisa Bemberg, who died in 1995, wrote and
directed Momentos, her bracing first feature, at the age of fifty-eight.
The first female director in the region to have achieved consistent international
success, Bemberg became one Argentina's most important and prolific filmmakers.