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Argentina, Spain / 2000 / 103min
Director：Lucrecia MARTEL

A decadent bourgeois family passes a sweltering summer in a dilapidated estate in northern Argentina’s Salta Province wetlands. At the film’s heart is Mecha, a woman of middle age, and her husband’s family. Mecha, verging on alcoholic, passes the summer at their vacation home with a relation named Tali and her children—Tali herself is mentally unstable.
The film depicts a sultry summer of lethargic and indifferent adults, adolescents pursuing their own games and exploits, and indigenous housekeepers, as tensions within the family, sexual repression, and class friction gradually bubble to the surface. What will follow when an accident involving a young boy becomes a turning point in this stagnant lifestyle? Premiered in the Competition section of the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Alfred Bauer Prize.

This film will be screened with Japanese subtitles only.