Young Woman
San Nicolás es la historia de un hermano y una hermana a la fuga. Han dejado su hogar por alguna razón desconocida y viven en el bosque, escondidos en graneros y cobertizos, haciendo lo que pueden para sobrevivir. A medida que avanza el crudo invierno de Texas, ocupan una casa de campo abandonada y, por un breve período, logran escapar de la dura realidad de sus circunstancias.
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A woman drifts back to childhood memories of rural Texas where her discovery of the jawbone of a horse in a field leads to a fascination with, in her own words, "dead things." Her natural history collection of insects and bones takes on a supernatural quality when she finds the corpse of a strange creature that she believes must be a faery. Using still photographs, found objects and unsettling creations that briefly come to life via stop-motion animation (which evokes the work of the Brothers Quay and gives them an even more unreal presence), filmmaker David Lowery tells a phantasmagorical story, part fantastical mystery and part nightmare, as a primal memory. A CATALOG OF ANTICIPATIONS weaves imagination and experience into a haunting tale recalled in snapshots of recollection, a dark fantasy with a tactile texture that grounds it in the physical world and narration that frames it as a coming-of-age moment. - Sean Axmaker
