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RODRIGUEZ, Omar. Death and landscape in La distancia más larga (The longest distance, 2013). Cuad. CILHA [online]. 2023, vol.24, n.2, e003.  Epub 27-Nov-2023. ISSN 1852-9615.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48162/rev.34.066.

In La distancia más larga (The longest distance, 2013), Venezuelan director Claudia Pinto Emperador’s opera prima, death unites natural and urban spaces. Lucas, a 12-year-old boy, flees Caracas after his mother is violently murdered. The boy’s goal is to reach la Gran Sabana, an immense area devoid of trees in the Venezuelan Amazon where the famous Mount Roraima is located. At the same time, Lucas’s grandmother returns to Venezuela. Sick with a terminal illness, she intends of dying in Roraima, a place where she was happy in her youth. Constructed at first glance as a road movie, the film presents Caracas only as a setting for the actions to take place. As Lucas embarks on his journey to the Amazon, the surroundings begin to move away from their role as background for the actions and become a cinematic landscape. Here, landscape implies a specific way of registering the natural environment as an independent element of the narrative that comes to dominate the actions of the characters, sometimes stopping the narrative completely, other times slowing it down, always focusing the attention on some affective aspect. While the technical tool normally used to present landscapes is the long shot, this article explores how Pinto Emperador (2013) prefers to use editing to formulate a counterpoint of images between the city and la Gran Sabana that allows death to be incorporated in both its destructive and creative dimensions.

Palavras-chave : landscape; death; latin american cinema.

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