(In Argentina with English subtitles)
DRAMA
Written and directed by Lucrecia Martel her first feature debut "The Swamp" as the English title indicates is reference to the environment, which this particular family and the mothers close friends or much of her relatives are living like. The opening has Mecha (Graciela Borges) attempting to carry some wine glasses, until she clumsily fell on them, drinking much of the time, alerting her 3 children lazying in a room above them, to run down and taking their mother with the help of the maid to the hospital. As a result of this action forced her oldest son living in a different city to come and visit her as well. And as he comes to visit he too is lying around.
Written and directed by Lucrecia Martel her first feature debut "The Swamp" as the English title indicates is reference to the environment, which this particular family and the mothers close friends or much of her relatives are living like. The opening has Mecha (Graciela Borges) attempting to carry some wine glasses, until she clumsily fell on them, drinking much of the time, alerting her 3 children lazying in a room above them, to run down and taking their mother with the help of the maid to the hospital. As a result of this action forced her oldest son living in a different city to come and visit her as well. And as he comes to visit he too is lying around.