This Thursday, March 28, a new Argentine film will be released in theaters. With address of Nicolas Gil Lavedra and the main roles of Sofia Galà Castiglione and Zoe Hochbaum, Like the sea also has the special participation of Carmen Maurathe famous Spanish actress, considered one of the “Almodóvar girls”, as she shared several films with the Oscar-winning director of La Mancha.
Like the sea It is also preceded by important international awards such as the Panorama Latino, received at the Iberoamerican Film Festival, and the Mauricio Litman Public Vote Award at the Iberoamerican Film Festival. Punta del Este International Festival.
The story of Like the sea -co-produced between Argentina and Uruguay, with beautiful exteriors in the city of Chief Polonius– is about two sisters who have just lost their mother.
Paula, the 34 year old older sister (played by Sofía Gala) decides to cremate the body of Teresa, the mother, but Azul – 17 years old, played by Zoe Hochbaum – is not satisfied and looks for money among her things… mother for pay for a funeral.
Naturally, while rummaging through the drawers, he discovers a revealing photo: Paula is actually not his sister but his motherand Teresa his grandmother.
Of course Azul is shocked and wants to know about his father. Paula tells him that it was a fleeting love affair during her adolescence, when she ran away to Cabo Polonio. Azul’s desire to meet him and Paula’s sense of guilt for having lied are the protagonists’ push to leave, almost without resources, for Uruguay.
Voyage. In “Like the Sea”, by Nicolás Gil Lavedra, the characters of Zoe Hochbaum and Sofía Gala Castiglione must form a new bond. During the trip they make an obligatory stop because of Tía Mecha (Carmen Maura), who has never met Azul due to historical disagreements with Teresa over the identity they hid from her.
The journey of the former sisters, now mother and daughter, continues. With each new experience they go through, they recover parts of their story and build a new bond.
Word of the director
“Like the sea It’s a film that addresses connections and talks about them, which explores the complexity of family relationshipsintertwining the pain of loss with the hope of redemption, which questions motherhood and ways of being maternal, which investigates femininities and their place in society, what is expected and what comes to modify what is established” says Nicolás Gil Lavedra, who at 40 years old, already has an interesting history in cinema.
In 2011 he directed real truths, his debut film based on the life of Estela de Carlotto, president of Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo. In 2018, Las grietas de Jara was premiered, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Claudia Piñeiro, starring Oscar Martínez, Joaquín Furriel, Soledad Villamil, Santiago Segura, Laura Novoa AND Zoe Hochbaum.
Carmen Maura. The Spanish actress is another of the attractions of “Like the Sea”, the film by Nicolás Gil Lavedra.It’s not the only work he has in common with Hochbaum, as they also did it together The Tree Window and Anne Franka play about Anne Frank which he directed and in which Zoe starred.
Zoe Hochbaum, for her part, He studied acting at the famous Lee Strasberg school., In New York. And she has participated in other films such as Asphyxiated, Absurd AND In the spotlight. Furthermore, he has perfected himself in singing, screenwriting and writing.
And what about Sofía Gala Castiglione. She is initially known to be the daughter of Moria Casanhas been able to develop a long and prestigious career acting under his own name, with films such as The result of love (with which she won the award for best actress at the Ibero-American Film Festival of Huelva), Alanis, Wash, exquisite corpse OR Natalia Nataliaamong many others.
Like the sea It is produced by Gabriel Hochbaum and will be released on Thursday, March 28 in at least 30 theaters nationwide.
Source: Clarin
