For 80 Days (2010) [N/A]
Featuring:
Itziar Aizpuru, Mariasun Pagoaga, José Ramón Argoitia
Written by:
Jon Garaño
Jose Mari Goenaga
Directed by:
Jon Garaño, Jose Mari Goenaga
Release Date:
May 21, 2010
Original Title:
80 egunean
Alternate Titles:
80 Dias
80 dagar
80 dager
80 dni
80 jours
80 päivää
En 80 días
For 80 Days
Kahdeksankymmentä päivää
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
EiTB
Irusoin
Moriarti Produkzioak
Production Countries:
Spain
Ratings / Certifications:
NL: AL
Runtime: 104
Axun, a 70 year old woman, is called from the hospital to take care of her daughter's ex-husband, who was seriously injured in a car accident. To her surprise, the woman who takes care of the other patient in the same hospital room turns out to be Maite, her best friend when teenagers. They have not seen each other for more than 50 years. The hospital visits will show that the close relationship they had when teenagers is still alive. Their relationship was very special fifty years ago but nowadays the same feelings flourish. Where is the thin line that separates friendship from desire?
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. When Maite invites her to the island of Santa Clara, Axun has to decide whether to obey her heart, or her reason....
