THE FISH CHILD
by Lucía Puenzo
synopsis
Lala lives in one of Buenos Aires’ most exclusive residential areas. She is passionately in love with Guayi, a twenty-year-old Paraguayan girl who has been employed by Lala’s parents to work at their home. The two young women dream of living in Paraguay, somewhere on the banks of Lake Ypoá. To turn their dream into reality, they begin emptying wallets and purses, stealing all the cash that they can lay their hands on in the house. They collect their booty in an old shoebox. But, just like Pandora’s box, as soon as the carton is full, desire, jealousy and anger begin to emanate from within. This marks the starting point for their escape to the highway that links northern Buenos Aires with Paraguay. All kinds of mysterious events await Lala at Lake Ypoá, while Guayi is detained in a reform institution …
international title: | The Fish Child |
original title: | El niño pez |
country: | Spain, Argentina, France |
sales agent: | mk2 Films |
year: | 2009 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Lucía Puenzo |
film run: | 96' |
release date: | ES 24/04/2009, FR 06/05/2009 |
screenplay: | Lucía Puenzo |
cast: | Inés Efron, Emme, Pep Munné, Arnaldo André, Carlos Bardem |
cinematography by: | Rodrigo Pulpeiro |
film editing: | Hugo Primero |
music: | Andrés Goldstein & Daniel Tarrab, Laura Zisman |
producer: | Luis Puenzo, José María, Morales |
production: | Wanda Visión, mk2 films, Historias Cinematográficas (AR) |
distributor: | Wanda Visión, MK2 Diffusion (FR) |