Angela’s death instinct is similarly intense, winning out over the grieving process and taking unexpected forms, such as when, with the distance of an entomologist, she feels the need to film a man who’s just hung himself before their very eyes in a wood. He’s a former literature teacher and a drunkard who reads poetry from the collection "Capital of Pain" by the surrealist Paul Éluard (".to hear eternity in the sound of an insect.") and who harbours evil intentions – either homicidal or suicidal – as he returns home. Shot across three separate islands in the Canaries, Angela’s journey in search of identity continues after she picks up a mysterious man (the Galician Miquel Insua) who’s looking for a ride in the direction of his home. Longing for the Infinite), a screenplay focused on existential unease and incommunicability, and protagonists who’ve lost their links with the world. Looking to the likes of Bernardo Bertolucci and Wim Wenders for inspiration, Mejías is aiming, with The Wanderer, towards an intimate and reflective form of cinema, with formal characteristics typical of arty films: sparse dialogue, a still camera, slow panoramic shots, very few locations, subdivision into chapters (in this instance, they’re intitled: 1.
Afterwards, she’ll head North with no particular destination in mind.Īfter studying film at Madrid’s TAI University of the Arts, Tenerife-born Miguel Mejías shot several short films, almost always featuring his muse Ángela Boix, before moving on to this his feature film debut, with Amanda Lobo collaborating on the screenplay. But butterflies are also a symbol of freedom, which is why she decides to leave town to bury her mother’s ashes in the dry desert where they would go hunting for insects to study and classify when Angela was still a child. Her love life consists of fleeting encounters with a young amusement park worker: sex sessions on the passenger seat of her clapped-out car, devoid of any unnecessary physical contact. Angela’s own existence is now progressing at the rate of a one-winged bug. Owing to an incurable illness, thirty-year-old Ángela ( Ángela Boix) has recently lost her mother ( Franciska Ródenas), an entomologist who raised her daughter with a passion - or rather an obsession - for moths and beetles.
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