A sober portrait of middle-class torpor and decadence Argentina director Lucrecia Martel's (The Headless Woman La ni'a santa) debut feature offers a glimpse into her country's dysfunctional class dynamics and tortured race relations. The film tells the story of two families' summer holiday spent in a decaying estate in the mountains. Physical details accumulate: the insistent clinking of ice cubes in glasses the scrape of metal chairs on a concrete patio people splayed in beds trying to sleep through the humidity. Before long the crowded domestic situation in both... homes strains the families' nerves exposing repressed family mysteries and tensions that threaten to erupt into violence. [show more]
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The debut feature of Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel is a harsh portrait of middle-class life in a small provincial town in northern Argentina. The film portrays the creepily dysfunctional families of two sisters, Tali (Mercedes Moran) and Mecha (Graciela Borges), as they approach the sticky end of a long, hot summer. Against the unspoken backdrop of a country ravaged by political, social and financial turpitude, the characters anaesthetise themselves with sex, alcohol and thoughtless, self-indulgent behaviour.
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