Undertow (2009)

Undertow (2009)
Contracorriente (original title)

Director: Javier Fuentes-León
Writer: Javier Fuentes-León Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Peru
Year: 2009
Language: Spanish Subtitle: serbian , english

Stars: Cristian Mercado, Tatiana Astengo and Manolo Cardona

Miguel ( Cristian Mercado ), mladi ribar u Cabo Blanco, živi malom tradicionalnom ribarskom selu u sjevernom Peruu. Oženjen je Marielom ( Tatiana Astengo )i očekuju svoje prvo dijete. Miguel se tajno viđa sa  Santiagom ( Manolo Cardona ) slikarom  iz dobrostojeće obitelji i koji ne skriva svoju homoseksualnost kao i Miguel.

Santiago se nesretnim slučajem utapa u moru i njegov duh pojavljuje Michaelu tražeći pomoć.
Miguel misli da se Santjagov duh pojavljuje jer nemože da nađe vječni mir sve dok se njegovo tjelo ne sahrani po tradiciji mjesta.
Dok je tražio Santjagovo tijelo , svakodnevno roneći oko stjena gdje se njegova ljubav utopila, Migule shvati da može biti najsrećniji čovjek na svjetu. Živjeći sa ženom koja treba da se porodi i sa Santjagom pored sebe kojeg niko ne može da vidi. San svakog oženjenog strejtera, ali nije sve u životu baš tako.

Ova prelijepa filmska prića nam preslikava čestu pojavu u našem društvu kada se oženjeni muškarci zaljube u muškarca. Vječita dilema kako živjeti rastrzan između života koji nam je "nametnut" vaspitanjem i moralnim normama proisteklim iz tradicionalnih vrijednosti našeg društva i života koji nam nameće sopstveno srce.

Film me je podsjetio na moje najveće ljubavi. Baksuz kakav sam ja uvjek je bio nekako "treći" . Velike ljubavi su imale i najteži kraj. Sada se klonim oženjenih muškaraca, ali sudbina se uvjek poigra samnom. Dokle će?

Trailer Undertow (2009)

One of the Centerpiece films is Peruvian director Javier Fuentes-León's immensely emotional feature debut "Undertow." In a religious and homophobic fishing village on the gorgeous beach in Peru, Miguel (Cristian Mercado) and his wife Mariela(Tatiana Astengo) are expecting a baby while Miguel is carrying on an affair with an openly gay out-of-town painter Santiago (Manolo Cardona). Miguel is devastated when he is confronted by the reality that he cannot have both lovers like in the good old time. His emotional journey to reach his destination is remarkably genuine and profoundly moving.

Miguel ( Cristian Mercado ), a young fisherman in Cabo Blanco, a small fishing village in northern Peru, a very traditional customs. He is married to Mariela ( Tatiana Astengo ), and expecting their first child, but keeps a secret affair with another man, Santiago ( Manolo Cardona ), a painter outsider who comes from a wealthy family and who does not hide his homosexuality as does Michael.

Santiago accidentally drowns at sea and his spirit appears to Michael for help. Miguel thinks that his soul rest have to find his body and offer it as the seafaring tradition of the place. Begins to dive to find the body of her lover, but meanwhile discovers Santiago just thinking and it appears no one else sees. They can be together whenever you want without having to hide as before, so when he finds the body tied to the rock next to it was and did not tell anyone.

But their relationship is not as idyllic as it seemed at first as Santiago berates him, as in life, it does not assume and ends asking not to call more. Besides the disappearance of Santiago has the consequence that come to light all his paintings of nudes of Miguel and extending the rumor of their relationship to the neighborhood, putting Michael in trouble. His friends turn away and his wife was going to her mother's house with the newborn child. Then Miguel decides to look for the body of Santiago but is late because the current has taken.

Undertow ( music video)

Mariela eventually returns home and his friends begin to treat it as before, but then the body of Santiago appears in the nets of a fishing. Miguel decides to claim the body of James to his family to offer himself in the seaside ceremony, facing front of all his true identity, but in doing so there is a possibility of losing some of the people you love. The ritual ends when Miguel into the sea the shrouded body of James and his spirit will forever dismisses him with a kiss.

Visit:Orvel.Me