A man arrives at home after a day of work to find his wife dead, lying on the bedroom floor. Without any type of hysteria or general acknowledgement of emotion, he meticulously puts his wife's body in a suitcase, packs it in the backseat of the car, and drives away. Flora Dias & Juruna Mallon's The Sung Against My Eyes is an evocation of love, life, and death, that is as challenging as it is spiritual rewarding for those patient enough to immerse themselves in the experience. Only 65 minutes in length, dialogue is sparce in The Sun Against My Eyes as it feels more like a silent film, being a sensitive and mediatative journey of one man's attempt to move on from the death of his loved one, finding some form of personal solace in the time he did have with his wife. This is a film that could be almost described as a road movie, as this man ventures few beautiful and various landscapes, having candid and spontaneous encounters with various characters along the way, many of which are living in loneliness and isolation of varying degress themselves. Using cinematography that is almost exclusively made up of static compositions, as well as an almost eery amount of silence, Flora Dias & Juruna Mallon have created a film in The Sun Against My Eyes that is both deeply personal and universal, using this character who is suffering from a quiet emotional breakdown to comment on the sense of longing and isolation that is a part of most people's lives.
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