Through the Fire

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Cortometraje / Documental
Países Bajos, 2013, 16 min

Sinopsis(1)

"What are you going to do this weekend?" the teacher asks her students. Armando has by far the most spectacular answer of the all: perform a stunt at the seaside resort of Scheveningen. He doesn’t say it with the bravado you might expect, but rather a little shyly. It’s immediately obvious that there’s a good story here, and it turns out to be completely true: Armando is really going to drive through a sea of fire. The announcer gives him quite a bit of build-up by saying that Armando has wanted to be a stuntman since the age of six, and dreams of a career in Hollywood. Now the talk has been talked, and he has to walk the walk. But at the last minute he pulls out – apparently, he’s not the daredevil he thought he was after all. Life’s not easy with a father who works as a window washer during the week and a stuntman on weekends. But the fat lady hasn't sung yet – they're going to try it another way. The tension builds to the max, with a lot of slow motion and dropping out the sound. Alongside the intimate, unassuming scenes between father and son, music and other devices accentuate the show element of the stunt scenes. (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)

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