7/7/2023 0 Comments Toews miriam![]() ![]() Irma, who speaks Plautdietsch (Low German), Spanish and English, is hired by Diego, the film's director, to act as interpreter and to cook for the crew.Īs Irma is drawn into the exotic world of the hip, urban filmmakers, she begins to better understand her place in the world, and to envision the possibility of some form of self-determination. Her world is transformed when a bohemian film crew from Mexico City arrives to make a film about Mennonites. ![]() ![]() After her new husband soon disappears into the drug trade, Irma tends to the farm alone. In a remote Mennonite colony in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, nineteen-year-old Irma Voth has been banished to a neighbouring farm by her strict, religious father after secretly marrying a non-Mennonite Mexican. The novel, about a Mennonite teenager whose life is transformed when a bohemian film crew comes to her settlement to make a film about Mennonites, was informed by Toews' experience as lead actress in Silent Light, the award-winning 2007 film written and directed by Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas. Irma Voth (2011) is the fifth novel by Canadian author Miriam Toews. ![]()
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