Alex and Edith, a young couple in their thirties, have a relationship made up of small gestures and tenderness amid the ruins of Cuban buildings. Milagros, an old pensioner, survives by selling peanut cones on the street and spends her days listening to radio and reading old letters. Frank and Alain, two nine-year-old best friends, go to school and dream of emigrating to the United States to become Major League Baseball players. In San Antonio De Los Baños, a town in the interior of Cuba where time seems to stand still, three worlds circulate and unfold.
Tommaso Santambrogio’s brilliant blend of three very distinct existences, all wrapped up in aspiration and melancholy, casts a disturbing light on Cuba. Contradictory forces are at work, fragmenting the lives of the characters and subtly revealing the country’s contemporary dynamics.
Oceans Are the Real Continents (Los océanos son los verdaderos continentes) - Bande-Annonce
Kritiken
« L'émotion monte progressivement, et atteint son acmé dans une scène d'un grand lyrisme, révélant la sensibilité de ce jeune réalisateur, sur le travail duquel il conviendra de garder un œil par la suite. »
Vittoria Scarpa www.cineuropa.org 31/08/2023
Best Film, Athens Panorama of European Cinema, 2023, gr
Oceans Are the Real Continents (Los océanos son los verdaderos continentes)
Tommaso Santambrogio has lived in Milan, Paris, Rome, Florence and Havana, and has worked with many leading directors including Werner Herzog and Lav Diaz. His first short films (The Last Scene and Los océanos son los verdaderos continentes) were both screened at the Venice Film Festival in 2019. In 2021, L’ultimo spegne la luce was selected in competition at the Settimana della Critica in Venice. Taxibol (2023), his medium-length film, was previewed at Visions du Réel. Los océanos son los verdaderos continentes is his first feature film.
