Lucia Puenzo He is developing his career as a director and series director both here and in other Latin American countries. He’s in pre-production lose clementinewith the Venezuelan Edgar Ramirez. And just like in Chile he shot the series The packin The fallwho filmed in Mexico returns to a thorny subject: abuse.
But this time he did not participate in the writing of the script, although his hand is noticeable in every twist.
Based on true events, the story follows Mariel (Karla Souza, an excellent performer), a swimmer who has serious aspirations to represent her country, Mexico, at the Olympics, competing in coordinated dives. Her coach, Braulio, is an energetic and vehement old man who likes to clear things up. Or make it clear that he is responsible. He has known her since she was very small.
worlds that collapse
When the mother of another swimmer now much younger than Mariel – she is 14, the same age as the protagonist when she started swimming – questions the coach’s integrity, there are several worlds that come down. One, that of Braulio (Hernán Mendoza, in a great interpretation, because he goes back and forth from one extreme to the other).
And the other is that of Mariel herself, who suffered the abuses of Braulio in her own flesh when she was little. And she silenced him, not just outside, but inside her as well.
The fall It has an appreciable sense of cleanliness, which is appreciated, given what is told to us. And Lucía Puenzo handles all the scenes with such rigor – those of wild sex that Mariel does with other adults, for example – that the viewer may, at some point, even doubt what seems certain.
Mariel is the kind of character who mobilizes everything even from her silences. She can sprout, but she is also capable of showing at a glance what she is suffering and feeling. She finds herself at one or more intersections: speak or be silent, pursue her desire to compete for gold at the Olympic Games or get out of her dream.
Puenzo returned to work with his brother Nicolás, who also directed photography wakolda, which was Lucía’s last feature film to date. They understand each other and even seem to complement each other in the organization and choice of colors in the pools, in the water, in everything.
The film premiered this week in a single room in Buenos Aires, the Atlas Patio Bullrich, so that those who want to enjoy it on a big screen can do so. From this Friday it is available in streaming on Amazon Prime Video, the same one it has in its catalog The pack.
“The fall”
Very good
Mexico / Argentina / United States, 2022. 94 ‘, SAM 16. Of: Lucia Puenzo. With: Karla Souza, Hernán Mendoza, Dèja Ebergenyi, Enrique Singer, Claudia Lobo. Stay: Atlas Patio Bullrich, only, and from this Friday, November 11th, available on Amazon Prime Video.
Source: Clarin
