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The Sharks

Another View 2019 / Los tiburones / Uruguay, Argentina, Spain 2019

Fourteen-year-old Rosina circles the slightly older Joselo like a clumsy baby shark. Although she hides it well, the hormonal chaos she is experiencing expresses itself in risky flirtation and outright malice. Debuting Uruguayan director Lucía Garibaldi’s award-winning study of romantic fumbling and youthful obsession leaves itself open to interpretation.

Synopsis

There are reports that the quiet waters of a coastal town are infested with sharks. And like a predator, fourteen-year-old Rosina inconspicuously circles her own victim: she is attracted to the somewhat older Joselo, who is in town for a summer job. But her clumsy attempts at flirting involve malicious risk-taking and manipulation. The Sharks stands above other teenage dramas thanks in particular to the subdued ambivalence with which it depicts its protagonist. Portrayed with confidence by Romina Bentancur, Rosina is a withdrawn girl whose unmoving face gives us no inkling of the hormonal chaos it hides so well. Debuting Uruguayan director Lucía Garibaldi’s award-winning study of romantic fumbling and youthful obsession leaves itself open to interpretation.

Ondřej Pavlík

About the film

80 min / Color, DCP

Director Lucía Garibaldi / Screenplay Lucía Garibaldi / Dir. of Photography German Nocella / Music Fabrizio Rossi, Miguel Recalde / Editor Sebastian Schjaer / Producer Isabel Garcia, Pancho Magnou Arnabal / Production Montelona / Cast Romina Bentancur, Federico Morosini, Fabián Arenillas, Valeria Lois, Antonella Aquistapache / Sales Visit Films

About the director

Lucía Garibaldi (b. 1986, Uruguay). Filmography: Colchones (2010, short), Mojarra (2012, short), The Sharks (Los tiburones, 2019)

Contacts

Visit Films
140 Havemeyer St., NY 11222, Brooklyn
United States of America
Phone: +1 718 312 8210
Fax: +1 718 362 4865
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Pancho Magnou Arnabal
Producer

Lucía Garibaldi
Film Director