La leon

The perfect melding of the individual contributions from actors, director, cinematographer & composer of this first feature from Argentina is, well, uncanny. Perhaps what's most uncanny is a haunting & indelible sense of place -- out of time, out of contemporary social life in the Paraná delta -- conveyed via a B&W visual style that reminded me of faded tintypes. It's an exploration of the persistence of, and loyalty to memory in a present without forward movement, but not without desire.

"Paced with a steady ebb and flow of tidal-like transitions, Santiago Otheguy's impressive debut feature juxtaposes images of natural order with human acts of destruction." - Rob Humanick