Sunday, June 23, 11:00 am, Victoria Theatre • North American première •
Sunday, June 30, 4:15 pm, Castro Theatre
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| Los miembros de la familia (Family Members) |
We the audience get to know Lucas and Gilda (Tomás Wicz and Laila Maltz, pictured) bit by bit, through a sequence of scenes with only sparse exposition, flashback, or even back reference, paralleling their process of getting reacquainted. They have been forced together by their mother’s death, traveling to her house on the Argentinian coast, carrying out her final wishes, but then they get stranded together by a bus strike preventing them from returning home.
Each day, they check to see if the strike has been settled, and then kill time until they can return home to their normal lives. Lucas socializes with some of the locals, most notably Guido (Alejandro Russek), with whom Lucas shares an interest in jiu-jitsu, fitness, motorcycles, and … possibly other things. The pace of events is unhurried, but never lags. The actors convey subtle nuances without mood music or other crutches, against a mostly drab color palette, leaving us to focus on the characters and their immediate experiences. It’s very well done, Highly recommended.
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