Telma, the cinema and the soldier
Telma, the cinema and the soldier is directed by Brenda Taubin
At 74 years old, Telma has three dreams to fulfill. They are the ones she confesses to the viewer in the first minutes of the film, and the ones that generate immediate empathy. One of those dreams is to reunite her daughter Lili with El Tano ("The Italian One", in Buenos Aires slang), that soldier with whom she exchanged letters during the Malvinas war, and who promised to visit her on his return. El Tano and Lili never got to know each other personally, and successive attempts to find out what their fate would have been did not succeed either. Then that absence became so present that, Lili says, El Tano was almost like another member of the family.
