«Hablar de mí misma es hablar del mundo. Hablar del mundo es hablar de mí misma.» (Agnès Varda)
Alicia, a filmmaker in the midst of a personal and professional crisis, returns to Altea, the town where, in her student years, she began her first film, to finish it, as she promised her first love and artistic mentor twenty-five years earlier, before he died. That return, however, becomes a reckoning with herself.
The Caprices is a work of autofiction that vindicates the caprice as method: the leap between present and past, the porous border between the lived and the dreamed. Through a constant dialogue between the present and 1999, Alicia relives her arrival in Altea as a Fine Arts student, her discovery of cinema as a territory for experimentation, and an intense relationship with Tania, a free, magnetic and queer artist with whom she builds a performative universe of their own.
In this reunion with her past, Alicia also reopens what was left unresolved with Godoy, the teacher who shaped her creative and personal awakening, and with Hache, Godoy's brother, who questions her right to tell that story. With a film-within-a-film structure, The Caprices is built on autofiction, metacinema and fantasy: memory becomes cinematic material and the border between reality and fiction dissolves.
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