Geminis

Director Albertina Carri / 2004

Albertina Carri's Geminis is a beautifully shot but disturbing film that peels back the skin of a middle-class family to reveal the secrets below. It wooed the audiences in Directors' Fortnight at Cannes this year.

Lucia and Daniel have three children: the eldest is Ezequiel, who now lives in Spain; the middle child is son Jeremias; and the youngest is the rather sullen daughter Meme. Lucia is obsessed with shaping and presenting her small clan as a model family of Argentina's chattering class. But so consumed is she with this project that she fails to see what is unfolding beneath her very nose. When Ezequiel returns to Argentina just prior to his wedding, he begins to suspect that the natural order of his family is out of kilter. Then one night he is confronted with the terrible truth of family relations.

Geminis was produced by Pablo Trapero, director of Rolling Family.


D Albertina Carri P Pablo Trapero, Barry Ellsworth S Albertina Carri, Santiago Girarlt WS Pyramide L Spanish w/English subtitles TD 35mm/ col/2005/86mins

Albertina Carri was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1973. Her films include I Won't Go Back Home (2000), The Blonds (2003), Barbie Gets Too Sad (2003).

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