When Ena returns to Venezuela, after spending several years abroad, she discovers a postcard in her father’s bookshop and sets off in search of a forgotten writer.

“A literary detective story that’s rich in the fine grain of daily life, Lost Chapters, by the Venezuelan filmmaker Lorena Alvarado, stars her real-life family: her sister, Ena; her father,Ignacio; and her grandmother, Adela Rodríguez. Ena, who’s twenty-five, is staying with Ignacio, a book collector specializing in the national literature.In one of his volumes, Ena finds a handwritten note about an early-twentieth-century Venezuelan author she’s never heard of, and, undertaking her own investigation, begins to doubt whether he really existed. Meanwhile, Adela, a former poet now showing signs of dementia, creates spontaneous poetry of poignant incongruities. Alvarado and José Ostos did the cinematography, and their keen sense of light, color, and tempo invests Adela’s tender observations and enigmatic digressions with drama and passion.” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker

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