Fish Child (The)
Original Title
El Niño Pez- Director: Lucía Puenzo
- Writer: Lucía Puenzo
- Producer: Charles Gillibert; José María Morales
CGiii Comment
Well...that was a journey and a half.
Instead of it having you on the edge of the seat...you'll probably find yourself deeply immersed in a snoring slumber...dreaming of sunlight.
Dull - as in lighting and content - and joyless.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Lala, a teenager from the most exclusive suburban neighborhood in Argentina is in love with the Guayi, the 20-year-old Payaguayan maid working at her place. They dream of living together in Paraguay, at the shores of lake Ypoá. Robbing every purse and wallet in the house to fulfill their dream, hiding the money in a shoe box. But when the box is full, it bursts, fueled by desire, jealousy and rage. This is the starting point that spurs the escape through the highway that connects the North of Buenos Aires with Paraguay. While Lala waits to be reunited with her lover in Ypoá by reconstructing her past (the mystery surrounding her pregnancy and the legend of a fish child who guides the drowned to the bottom of the lake), the Guayi is detained in a minors institute in the outskirts of Buenos Aires. She turns out to be hiding a crime from long ago.
Cast & Characters
Inés Efron as Lala;
Mariela Vitale as La Guayi;
Pep Munné as El juez bronte;
Diego Velázquez as el Vasco;
Carlos Bardem as Comisario Pulido;
Arnaldo André as Socrates Espina;
Ailín Salas as la Guayi niña;
Sandra Guida as Felicitas;
Julián Doregger as Nacho;
Loren Acuña;
Irene Almus;
Leticia Bacci;
Agustina Baldín;
Mario Barroso;
Jorge Booth