León and Olvido

A young boy, Leon, suffering from Down's syndrome sits in his room at an institution, leaning over three pictures; one of his dead parents, one of himself and his twin sister, Olvido, and a torn picture of his sister at her current age. He is waiting for her to pick him up. Highly reluctant to take him on, the sister brings him home and tells him that she refuses to be his servant.
Bermudez portrays these siblings with an emphasis on family dynamics rather than the challenges of Down's syndrome. Leon longs to be self-sufficient but sometimes stubbornly refuses to. He attends a school for students with Down's syndrome, and tells his class-
mates that he has to take care of his sister and not vice-versa. Though Olvido tries to get rid of Leon, you can depict dependence between the siblings as they have no other family to turn to.
With a touch of incestuous implications, Bermudez gives us a social realistic story influenced by the aura of surreal weirdness and pitch-black comedy of Luis Bufiuel. The story is told straight on without romanticizing the love-hate relationship that stands in the way of positive change, and it reveals a notion of an unbreakable twin symbiosis holding it all together.
NATALIE MAJERSKI

Premiärstatus
Svensk premiär: Orig. titel
León y Olvido: Medverkande
Marta Larralde, Guillem Jimenez, Gary Piquer: Producent
Beatriz Navarrete: Manus
Xavier Bermudez: Foto
Alfonso Sanz: Musik
Coche Villanueva: Talat språk
Spanish