'Eternal Memory' (2023)
Director Maite Alberdi's documentary is essential viewing.
I was shaken by 'The Eternal Memory’, watching deep love and the loss of it.
Over 4 years, director Maite Alberdi videoed Paulina Urrutia caring for Augusto Góngora, her husband being gutted by Alzheimer's.
All disease is a terror, but dementia affects me more when it happens to productive people. Góngora was a famous journalist who bravely distributed news exposing the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. I write in the past tense because he died in 2024.
Pauli, as she's affectionately known, shredded me with her smiles, tears and patience. She’s a winner of television and theatre awards for her acting, and was a minister in the first democratic government. 17 years his junior, she has a lot of life to look forward to, and I hope to see her on the big screen.
What a lady!
What a documentary!