What we wanted it to be is an impossible love story, set in a bar

Far, far from the provocateur he was, Alessandro Agresti returned to the cinema after nine years with a story of friendship and love, two characters, a joke and lots of rhythmic dialogues and authentic interpretations of Luis Rubio AND Eleanor Wexler.

Agresti’s last film was Popular mechanicspremiered in 2015 at the Mar del Plata Film Festival. The director’s life has changed Love is a fat woman, secret wedding OR The wind took what: She moved to the coast, wrote and wrote, and in her re-entry into the industry created the story of a writer and bookstore owner.

But Inés (Eleonora Wexler) and Beto (Luis Rubio, trying his hand at a role far from the simplest comedy) don’t know each other in the reading world, but they know each other culturally. It’s 1998 and they will see it separately love quicklyHoward Hawks classic with Cary Grant at the old Cine Arte in downtown Buenos Aires. They do it, we were saying, separately, but they will come out of it together. It is said, it is said, they end up in another classic, the Brighton bar, where they chat without telling each other too much about their private life, at Inés’s request.

Meetings

The following are the weekly (re)meetings in that bar. Everyone has their own story: Beto dreamed of being an astronaut, we will discover Inés, together with her co-star, who is facing cancer.

But What we wanted to be It’s not a drama, or at least the dramatic elements are mixed with comedy. There will be nothing to laugh about, because the film, which has humour, chooses the path, the middle way, a peaceful, calm tone. Yes, it is also suitable for all types of audiences.

It is a film in which we see a less bombastic and bombastic and more mature Agresti, albeit with well-rounded characters. Aggrestinians: two passionate beings, who will pursue what they want to be and not what they were seemingly predestined to be.

A love story in which what is said is more important than what is seen, despite the photography by Marcelo Camorino (nine queens) knows how to reflect the intensity of the situations in these shots and reverse shots.

“What we wanted to be”

Dramatic comedy. Argentina/France, 2024. 81′, ATP. From: Alessandro Agresti. With: Eleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio. Rooms: Cinemark Palermo, Hoyts Unicenter, Cinépolis Avellaneda, Showcase Belgrano.