An incestuous love affair. Meme and Jeremias are the younger children in a typical bourgeois family. Their mother Lucia is the dominant force in the household, but her fixation on upholding the niceties of upper middle class life has prevented her from seeing what is going on under her roof. When the siblings’ older brother and his fiancee arrive home for their wedding, it seems inevitable that the concealment will be impossible to sustain. But equally it becomes apparent that if Lucia were to find out about the affair, there would be catastrophic consequences.
Direction
Carri's unflinching gaze that refuses to moralize or explain.
Acting
Banegas as the oblivious matriarch, a performance of terrifying normalcy.
Director
Albertina Carri
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Argentina's 'New Argentine Cinema' wave, using digital video to expose middle-class rot beneath Peronist nostalgia.
Carri based the film partly on her own fraught family dynamics, exploring how authoritarian mothers create spaces where children develop secret languages of resistance.
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