Completed - SPANISH - Thriller - 100 minutes
Celina visits an old friend’s cottage escaping from her unraveling marriage. She befriends a group of girls who spend their days in debauchery,taking drugs,having sex and shooting rifles. But Celina is still in despair and her issues gradually resurface and soon her mental state gets out of hand.
Year of production : 2013 Director(s) : Santiago PALAVECINO Writer(s) : Santigo PALAVECINO Cast : Cecilia RAINERO, Agostina LOPEZ, Agustina MUÑOZ, Ailin SALAS Producer(s) : Agustina COSTA VARSI (VOLPE FILMS), Santiago PALAVECINO (VOLPE FILMS), Fernando MANERO (VOLPE FILMS)
“I felt it was impossible that I had been a girl in those corners, and later I feared I was no longer myself”, read the first pages of Cesare Pavese’s Women on Their Own, the book that triggered Santiago Palavecino’s third feature. The phrase also drives to read the moment in which the director –together with his main character Celina– arrives to the big country house in which most of the story will take place: the point in which for some of the film’s girls the past and present time have turned into unreal, chimerical territories. Palavecino spreads out patches or blinks of genres (thriller, horror, melodrama) over the palette of moods he uses to portray these lone women, and the result is a mysterious and narcotic film that revolves around the sparks from these combinations. But mostly calls upon us, dragging us through blows of beauty and magnetism and forcing us to be the question marks that close the questions this formidable film poses.
Country(ies) : ARGENTINA
BAFICI Focus 2014La Biennale di Venezia - Venice FF 2013 OrizzontiVentana Sur 2013 Video LibrarySitges FF 2013Sitges FF 2013Sitges FF 2013Sitges FF 2013Sitges FF 2013 (Competencia)BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2014 Int'l Official Selection