Rosales and Bing wanted to correspond with their respective filmic imaginaries, but in this case without using the epistolary recourse. Their idea was to create short stories that reflect two worlds that are geographically and culturally remote.
Natalia and Carlos, both aged 20, are in love and struggling to survive in today's Spain. Their limited resources prevent them from getting ahead as they'd like to. They have no great ambitions because they have no great hopes. To earn some money, they decide to shoot an amateur porno film. The birth of their daughter Julia is the main catalyst for the changes they make.
In four distinct chapters, Solitary Fragments follows two women, Adela and Antonia, through their everyday lives. The film maps out their relationships, shows us the people that matter to them, and slowly ties their lives together. With a camera as still and observant as Ozu’s tatami angle, Jaime Rosales creates a disarmingly naturalistic, nonjudgmental tapestry of people strug...