- dir. DOMINGA SOTOMAYOR
- year. 2014
- country. CHILE & ARGENTINA
- run-time. 1hr 10min
- rating. 18
£5.00 (£3.50 conc.)
Doors 17:00 - Film 18:00
In the first half of 2017 our regular Latin American cinema Night will focus on films directed by women. We are starting the year with two films from Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor-Castillo, Mar is her second feature. It follows our screening of her debut film Thursday Till Sunday on 4 January.
We will continue to showcase the best of Latin American Cinema on the first Wednesday of each month.
Martin goes on vacation to the Villa Gesell, Argentina, with his girlfriend. They drive his mother’s car not knowing that she didn’t leave them the car’s papers. Although the standstill of the couple’s relationship is in the air, summer days go by lazily in the hostel and on the beach. Then, Martin’s mother arrives with the documents and breaks the couple’s intimacy and exposes Martin’s fragility. Now he is stuck playing the roles of a son and a man in front of the two women. The mother also hides the real purpose of her visit and Martin confronts her about it. In the midst of conflict, a lightning strikes nearby and takes the lives of four young people on holidays. This real event confronts the protagonists’ situation with questions about life and death.