Completed - SPANISH-ARGENTINE - Drama, Comedy, LGBT - 85 minutes
Body-obsessed Lucas and his mystically-inclined sister become stranded when they travel to a province town to fulfill their dead mother’s last wishes. A tale of love, loss and fitness.
Year of production : 2019 Director(s) : Mateo BENDESKY Writer(s) : Mateo BENDESKY Cast : Tomas WICZ , Laila MALTZ , Alejandro RUSSEK Producer(s) : Agustina COSTA VARSI (Volpe Films), Diego DUBCOVSKY (VARSOVIA FILMS), Mateo BENDESKY
Lucas (17) and Gilda (20) travel to a small Argentine beach town to fulfill the last wishes of their recently deceased mother: scatter her remains in the ocean. Unfortunately, the only “remains” they have is her prosthetic hand, but as Gilda says when they throw it into the surf, “it’s the same as long as we get it off our backs”. Ready to return home, the two siblings find themselves stranded by a nationwide bus strike. Lucas, obsessed with bodybuilding and contact fighting, finds the nearly deserted town fertile ground for exploring his sexuality and the limits of his body. Gilda, still affected by her recent stay at a rehab center and obsessed with her “bad energy”, tries countless therapies and divination methods in order to find some meaning in the world. Trapped in their own limbo, the two confront the empty space left by their mother’s suicide as they bid farewell to their adolescence and face the ambiguity of life, death and fitness.
Country(ies) : ARGENTINA
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San Sebastian FF 2019 Film Library (not in selection)Thessaloniki IFF 2019 Official SelectionBerlinale 2019 (Panorama)