Combining a wealth of recently discovered home movies, video, and written documents with artfully shot contemporary interviews and v\u00e9rit\u00e9 footage, MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART is a documentary that cracks open a Pandora\u2019s box of unresolved family drama. Originating from filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo\u2019s suspicion that there was something ugly in her family\u2019s past, the film charts her excavation of the buried family conflict around her uncle Miguel\u2019s death, and her search for Miguel\u2019s partner Robert a generation later. After two years of dead ends, Robert turns up: but he\u2019s not the same man. He\u2019s reinvented himself as Father Aquin, a Franciscan monk with twenty-five years of pent-up grief and bitterness. For the first time, a member of Miguel\u2019s family wants to hear Aquin\u2019s side of the story\u2014but is it too little, too late? A story about the mistakes of the past and the second chances of the present, MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART is a cautionary tale about the unresolved conflicts wrought by AIDS, and a nuanced exploration of how faith is used and abused in times of crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9665,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"languages":[],"countries":[884,1443],"film_categories":[],"master_copies":[],"pricing_grid":[],"press_types":[1191],"class_list":["post-9672","film","type-film","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","countries-pr-fr","countries-united-states-fr","press_types-critique"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n