Con’s Score: 3.5 Rides
This Uruguayan film breaks a lot of repressive taboos in its look at the bourgeois and women in Uruguan society. The fact they’re lesbians is almost incidental.
Chela (Ana Brun) and Chiquita (Margarita Irún) are selling off the family jewels to settle debts that sees Chiquita go to goal for forgery. She’s the more sociable of the two, and Chela faces life alone again. She falls into a role as a taxi driver of some older rich ladies before Uber was invented. Through them, she meets the sultry Angey (Ana Ivanova)who awakens lost desires in Chela.
This is a small movie about rediscovery… how people lose themselves inside a relationship. Writer-Director Marcelo Martinessi is also looking at the way Uruguayan women have been lost in their society too.
It’s interesting that Martinessi evolved the script and ideas after working with Ana Ivanova. She sizzles without even trying, and her character is so different to the gossips Chela ferries around.
This is a story that says a lot while saying very little, about topics no one talks about.
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