A Esteticista (La esteticién)

A Esteticista (La esteticién), Brazil, 2004, OV with spanish subtitles, 96', DCP

Written and directed by: Sergio Oksman, Photography: Adolpho Cañadas , Montage: Fernando Franco, Mixes: Nacho Arenas, Cast: Emmy Blum.

Emmy Blum is a 76 year old redhead who works as a beautician in São Paulo and agrees to participate in a film about her life. It is when she remembers that the Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele spent part of his experiments with humans to see if red-haired women have a different level of sensitivity. Emmy was deported from Hungary in 1944, she saw Mengele for the first time in the main courtyard of Auschwitz and weeks later she became one of his guinea pigs. Film-reflection on the difficulty of filming the past and memory traps.