Camera Obscura
2008 • Argentina, France • 86 minutes Wednesday, March 10, 2010 • 07:30 PM • AMC Loews East Hanover 12New Jersey Premiere
At the end of the 19th century, a baby girl is born only feet away from the new world as a ship of immigrants docks in Buenos Aires. Shy and self-conscious, Gertrudis grows up as the ugly duckling in a colony of Argentinean Jews. She fashions herself almost invisible, even hiding her face in photographs. After she is married off to an older, wealthy Jewish...