71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
Languages
Official
Sponsor
Media
Partner

La puta y la ballena / The Whore and the Whale

Luis Puenzo
Argentina-Spain
Synopsis
Director
Without knowing when and how, Vera lost the pace: she?s stranded in Spain. Her marital crisis, the discovery of a lump in her breast, and a proposal to write the epigraphs of the photos of an Argentinian killed in the Spanish Civil War open the door to escape. In Buenos Aires she undergoes a masectomy and discovers the main clues to her next story. Disentangling the mystery of a whale that got stranded twice or of a chorus girl who works as a prostitute in Patagonia while following the steps of a photographer are only some of the excuses helping her to rediscover the person she once was. Alone at the end of the world, she will fall in love with a stranger in the same brothel bed as the heroes of her novel swore never to fall in love, will dance tango with death and will bury the past in the depths of the sea.
Director
Luis Puenzo
Screenplay
Luis Puenzo, Lucía Puenzo, Ángeles González-Sinde
Photography
José Luis Alcaine
Edition
Hugo Primero
Music
Daniel Tarrab, Andrés Goldstein
Cast
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Mercè Llorens, Miguel Angel Solá, Edward Nutkiewicz
Running Time
125 m.
Country
Argentina-Spain
Official Sponsor
Media Partner
Official Collaborators:
Associated Institutions: