Country: Costarica, France, Spain, Netherlands, Mexico
Year: 2010
Duration: 83'
cold water of the sea A young, well-off couple from Costa Rica are on vacation on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. One dark night they come upon a young girl who says she has run away from home to escape her uncle’s attentions. The next morning the little girl has disappeared. The young woman, who is often left on her own by her companion, can’t stop thinking about what might have happened to the girl but she feels unable to leave the safety of her hotel room to go down to the beach and search for her. When she finally gets up the courage to do so, her encounter with the girl shows her the depth of her solitude and the limitations of her privileged life. “There is a particular feeling of paralysis that I want to capture here; one that is particular of a small, traditional country, where nothing ever happens, and youth is still seen as a disease best cured with time and patience. And one that is particular to young girls, who get tangled in a web of doubts and hesitation, their desires getting crushed into a constant anxiety that ends up defining them. This web is made of very fine, invisible threads.”
Biography
film director
Paz Fábrega
Paz Fábrega (San José, Costa Rica, 1979) studied photography and journalism before enrolling at the London Film School. The short film Temporal, her graduating thesis, was shot in 2006 in Costa Rica and participated in numerous festivals, including the festivals of Clermont-Ferrand, Tampere, Uppsala and Biarritz. Her second short, Cuilos, previewed at the Festival in Locarno in 2008 and participated at many other international festivals. Agua fría de mar, her debut feature film, was made with the contribution of the TorinoFilmLab and won the Tiger Award at the Film Festival Rotterdam in 2010.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Temporal (cm, 2006), Cuilos (cm, 2008), Agua fría de mar (Cold Water of the Sea, 2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Paz Fábrega
fotografia/cinematography
Maria Secco
montaggio/film editing
Nathalie Alonso
scenografia/production design
Marielos Cordero, Dominique Ratton Perez
suono/sound
Séverin Favriau
interpreti/cast
Montserrat Fernandez, Lil Quesada Morua, Freddy Chavarría, Annette Villalobos, Luis Carlos Bogantes
produttori/producers
Jean des Forêts, Paz Fábrega, Fernanda del Nido, Els Vandevorst
produzione/production
Temporal Films, Les Films du requin, Tic Tac Producciones, Isabella Films, Pimienta Films
vendita all’estero/world sales
Films Boutique
