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Oblivion
Directed by
Heddy Honigmann
Not Rated
2008
1h 33m
Documentary
7.4
94%
89%
4.9
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Heddy Honigmann returns to her birthplace of Lima, Peru to reacquaint herself with a place and people dear to her heart.
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Cast of Oblivion
Heddy Honigmann
Director / Writer
Sonia Goldenberg
Writer
Oblivion Ratings & Reviews
Spectrum Culture
David Harris
Ultimately, Oblivion is a humanistic documentary that gives voice to an otherwise silent majority.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Oblivion (El Olvido) throws its net across a considerable range of human behavior and bittersweet survival stories, and the result is a wise and beautiful documentary from Dutch filmmaker Heddy Honigmann.
NewsBlaze
Kam Williams
Slumming, South American-style!
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
The point of Oblivion is to rescue some sense of the beauty and individuality of people who live in a place most of us only hear about when it suffers an earthquake or a military coup.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Prolific filmmaker Heddy Honigmann, the champion of the little people, is back and in fine form.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Oblivion contains more than its share of indelible images and memorable characters.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
An honest, captivating, quietly poignant and illuminating documentary.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Oblivion is a movie so suffused with feeling for its human subjects that when a man starts weeping, you don't feel dirty about watching his tears fall.
Boxoffice Magazine
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
Poetic in its structure and humane in its storytelling, Oblivion is poignant, filled with interviews that effortlessly speak volumes.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
The result is a tender, poetically aimless movie by someone who no longer dwells among these stoic people, but feels like she might be the only one who remembers them.
Filmcritic.com
Paul Brenner
a tone poem of emptiness.
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
Asserts that, under a tragicomic two centuries of home misrule, the most devalued citizens of Lima have failed to be consigned to the limbo ("el olvido") the oligarchy has constructed for them.
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Louis Proyect
Unstinting but lyrical documentary on the costs of poverty in Peru, especially on the children who scramble for coins on the streets of Lima as they ply their trades as gymnasts, jugglers, musicians and shoeshine boys.
Film Journal International
Maria Garcia
Like all of Heddy Honigmann's films, Oblivion, set in her native Lima, Peru, obliterates any previously held notions we might have had about the subjects she confronts, which, in this case, are intentional forgetfulness and the forgotten of Lima.
Projection Booth
Rob Humanick
Oblivion maintains its focus on Peru but its examination of corruption renders its insights universal.
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