Spanish with English subtitles
PG: Not Recommended for Children
Set on Costa Rica’s beautiful coastline, Paz Fabrega’s COLD WATER OF THE SEA is a lovingly paced study of two girls’ parallel lives and the way they intersect for a few odd and revelatory days. One girl, Mariana, is wealthy, wed and locked in an isolating world of privilege. The other, Karina, is a precocious seven-year-old testing the bounds of her small, impoverished world. Both have families that no longer fill their lives, and both find a strange common bond in their loneliness and separate developments.
Sea snakes boil on the sands, neglected pools sit idle, hotel sheets lie unused and children dig in the beaches with glee and little concern for danger. Moment to moment, this world alternates between beautifully flat and taut with tension. The visual universe Fabrega sets up is both perilous and totally banal from shot to shot. This unsettling rhythm creates a mesmerizing effect and COLD WATER OF THE SEA achieves a resonant place as one of the fine mysteries of 2010 cinema.
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Countries
Costa Rica- Awards
- VPRO Tiger Award/ International Film Festival Rotterdam 2010
- Festivals
- Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2010, Official Selection Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2010, Official Selection Durban International Film Festival 2010
- Director
- Paz Fábrega
- Executive Producer
- Max Valverde-Soto
- Producer
- Cyriac Auriol, Jean des Forêts, Paz Fábrega
- Screenwriter
- Paz Fábrega
- Cinematographer
- María Secco
- Editor
- Nathalie Alonso Casale
- Production Design
- Marielos Cordero, Dominique Ratton Perez
- Cast
- Lil Quesada Morúa, Montserrat Fernández, Luis Carlos Bogantes