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An interesting Argentine film that doesn’t quite pull it off.   The story of two swimmers, one Goyo, once a local great at river swims and then disgraced by a doping episode and Chino, a young guy whose life is the local pool but is never quite good enough to be a champion, though nor is he cut out for anything else.  Their lives intertwine and they help each other in a strange way to make sense of their situations.  The film has little dialogue and its ups and downs in both plot and continuity but what it does include is the most superb photography (much of it underwater) by Sabine Lancelin and Matias Mesa and good acting by the leads Rafael Ferro and Nicolas Mateo.  Director Veronica Chen has undoubted talent and dares to do many things that other directors don’t (replace music with a fantastic soundtrack of noises filtered by water)  I liked the film but felt that something was missing to lift it up to levels of greatness!

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