Las Meninas

This 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