Wednesday, December 18, 1891 - North Shore News - 34

Production
was plagued
by problems

From page 26

miilian and took a decade to get
on the screen, partly because the
story and screenplay kept chang-
ing. There was also the difficuity of
switching from documentary to
dramatic writing, and the problem
of writing from a woman’s point of
view.

Lucas admits it took him six
years to get intere:‘ed in the film,
that he was “dragged kicking and
screaming into it’ by Gunnarsson.

“it’s kind of embarrassing, but
when I went to El Salvador in 19&3
it was a terrifying time. You
couidn’t go out at night. Even in
the daytime people were scared. |
remember when we were leaving,
turning almost religious when the
plane took off for Mexico City. !t
was a real nightmare.”

Four years later he returiied with
a woman from the Canadian
foreign service and an idea for the
script materialized.

“On the basis of that trip | real-
ly got to the heart of the matter:
that is, what would happen to me
if } was here for months on end? |
think I’d lose my objectivity and
immunity to the situation and
become very involved.”

Which is exactly what happens
to Dades. She comes to rely on a
church relief worker, Sara Roldan
(Ofelia Medina), who reveals to
her certain realities about the
Salvadorean situation.

The entire film was shot in Mex-
ico over the summer of 1990 and
premiered at the Montreal World
Film Festival in August.

Lucas says the production was
plagued with problems: equip-
ment fell apart, and the crew's
unit manager broke his foot. The
worst was the death of the Mex-

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