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Vicente Ferrer

Name: Vicente Ferrer
Director: Agustín Crespi
Released: 2013
Duration: 106 min

Representation Score

3.2/10

Limited

2013

Director

Agustín Crespi

Runtime

106 minutes

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This biographical drama functions as a traditional study of humanitarianism. It finds its strength in its international setting and the depiction of a life dedicated to service in India. However, the film adheres to conventional social hierarchies. The narrative relies on traditional interpersonal dynamics and Western institutional frameworks, such as the Jesuit mission, rather than challenging them. Ultimately, the work prioritizes historical biography over the deconstruction of established social or gender norms.

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Category Breakdown

Does Vicente Ferrer have LGBTQ+ representation?

Limited

The film focuses on the heterosexual relationship between Vicente and Anna Ferrer. It does not include characters with non-cisgender identities or narratives that question heterosexuality.

How does Vicente Ferrer portray gender?

Fair

The story highlights the partnership between Vicente and Anna. However, the framework emphasizes traditional roles of support and companionship within a biographical context.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Vicente Ferrer?

Fair

The Indian setting provides a platform for ethnic diversity. While the social fabric is present, the primary ability to act remains driven by the Spanish protagonist and his collaborators.

How does Vicente Ferrer represent religion and culture?

Limited

The narrative is rooted in Western institutional frameworks like the Jesuit mission. It celebrates traditional moral structures and conventional virtuous character arcs.

Does Vicente Ferrer include disability representation?

Minimal

The film explores helping the disadvantaged, but lacks specific evidence regarding characters with disabilities playing primary roles in the plot.

Present on Screen

The Indian setting provides significant engagement with non-Western cultural landscapes.
The focus on humanitarian work offers a platform for ethnic and social diversity.

Limited or Absent

The narrative relies on traditional gender roles and heterosexual romantic frameworks.
The story reinforces conventional moral structures rather than challenging Western institutions.
There is a lack of representation regarding characters with visible or invisible disabilities.

Official Synopsis

Vicente Ferrer traveled to India in his youth as a member of a Jesuit mission. Years later, he returns to the Asian country in the company of a group of collaborators to develop his humanitarian work. Agustín Crespi directs this biographical film that takes place in India and reviews the last 30 years of the Spanish aid worker and his struggle to help the most disadvantaged . Vicente Ferrer was a figure admired for his humility, his perseverance and his dedication to others, work that was recognized with prestigious awards as the Prince of Asturias de la Concordia. Manuel Arias takes on the challenge of embodying the former curator of Barcelona, a man whose complex idiosyncrasies try to reveal this work. A personality impossible to understand completely without the figure of Anna Ferrer, played by Aída Folch. Folch incarnates the English girl who fell in love with the worker, given in body and soul, from the age of 21, to the cause of her future husband.

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