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Las Meninas
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ihor Podolchak Co-director: Dean Karr
Produced by	Ihor Podolchak Co-producer: Liliya Mlynarych Creative producer: Ihor Dyurych Associate Producer: Tamara Podolchak
Written by	Ihor Podolchak Additional dialogues: Andrey Levkin
Starring	Mykola Veresen Lyubov Tymoshevska Hanna Yarovenko Dmytro Chernyavsky Ilona Arsentyeva Stas Arsentyev Viktoriya & Valeriya Ulyanchenko
Music by	Alexander Shchetynsky Additional music: Yuriy Yaremchuk
Cinematography	Serhiy Mykhalchuk
Editing by	Ihor Podolchak
Distributed by	Ihor Podolchak, Ukraine Insomnia World Sales
Release date(s)	Rotterdam International Film Festival January 25, 2008 Ukraine October 5, 2009
Running time	99 minutes
Country	Ukraine
Language	Ukrainian

Las Meninas (Spanish for The Maids of Honour) is a 2008 Ukrainian film directed by Ihor Podolchak.

[edit] Plot synopsis

The film is about what the routine of everyday life can do to the human mind and psyche. It also reflects on the importance of the choices we make and how limited these choices are in the first place. The plot evolves around a family of four. They live in the suburbs, in a strange villa that appears, through a complex game of mirrors, to be more like a piece of installation art than a real house. The main character, who hardly appears on screen, is the son, a man in his thirties. Suffering from asthma and eczema since childhood, he uses his condition to manipulate his parents and his sister. Thus the existence of the terrorized family turns into an endless ritual of attempting to satisfy his whims, and always on the alert for yet another one of his “health crises”.

Las Meninas resembles the scattered pieces of a puzzle. It is up to the viewer to assemble them in order to form his very own picture – something that makes the film itself personal and unique.

[edit] Sources

• AJA KONA 3 Enables Post Production for 'Las Meninas. Grass Valley, CA, September 4, 2008, .aja.com
• Matamoros C. ¡Viva el cine de los márgenes! Mirades de Cine, número 81 — diciembre 2008
• Sanders R. Recensie. movie2movie.nl

[edit] External links

• Las Meninas at Internet Movie Database
• Official cite
• Las Meninas at Columbia University
• Ihor Podolchak at Internet Movie Database
• Las Meninas at Allmovie

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