A film about the lives of labourers who extract salt from the sea off the Araya Peninsula in Venezuela. Their method for extracting salt, virtually unchanged for centuries, depends on gruelling physical labor, but provides a dependable, if meagre, living for the men and their families. They ‘joy of progress’ comes not from social or community support but from a built plant for mechanised salt extraction that could very likely eliminate the community’s traditional source of income.
Or the parallel world at Cannes to Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour that hasn’t lost it’s incredible punch wrapped in the question how can a creative team of 2 people and just, deliver such a flawless and superb documentary film that probably Flaherty would have been envious of.
