An opera prima. 'The Entire Life is a 1988

1988 in film

-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:* Act of Piracy* Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* Akira* Alice...

 Argentine

Cinema of Argentina

The cinema of Argentina has a tradition dating back to the late nineteenth century, and continues to play a role in the culture of Argentina....

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Carlos Olguin-Trelawny

Carlos Olguin-Trelawny

Carlos Olguin-Trelawny is an Argentine film director and screenwriter.He started studying filmmaking at the ProDeo University in Rome. He also studied with masters such as Jean-Luc Godard in Paris. His first professional work was as second-assistant director to Academy Winner Russian director...

 and written Martha Gavensky starring Miguel Ángel Solá

Miguel Ángel Solá

Miguel Ángel Solá is a prolific Argentine actor who has made over 60 film appearances in film and TV in Argentina since 1973....

 and Bárbara Mújica

Barbara Mujica

Barbara Mujica is an American novelist, short story writer and critic.Her latest novels are Sister Teresa , based on the life of Saint Teresa of Ávila, and Frida, based on the life of Frida Kahlo...

.

Plot

Buenos Aires, 1983. Christmas' Eve. Rey (Miguel Ángel Solá) and Isabel (Bárbara Mujica), two old college friends, bump into each other at a restaurant. It has been fifteen years since they last saw each other. Isabel has just returned from exile; Rey had just wanted to be alone, wrestling with his own personal demons.

This by-chance encounter with Isabel takes Rey back to his college days when he was secretly in love with her. "A dos aguas" (The Entire Life) is a look at the effects of years spent living under a brutal dictatorship and peoples' desperate rush to recover lost time. Perhaps more importantly, it depicts the pain of being an orphan in both a physical and spiritual sense.

Release and acclaim

Praised by critics as the first post-modern Latin American film.

"A dos aguas" premiered on April 28th, 1988 in Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 and in various European countries most notably France

France

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 in October 1988.

"A dos aguas" was produced by Avica Producciones and Jorge Estrada Mora Producciones (JEMPSA) and distributed worldwide by Metropolis Films (Zürich, CH).

Director Carlos Olguin-Trelawny

Carlos Olguin-Trelawny

Carlos Olguin-Trelawny is an Argentine film director and screenwriter.He started studying filmmaking at the ProDeo University in Rome. He also studied with masters such as Jean-Luc Godard in Paris. His first professional work was as second-assistant director to Academy Winner Russian director...

 won a Special Mention at the 40th Locarno International Film Festival

Locarno International Film Festival

The Film Festival Locarno is an international film festival held annually in the city of Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. After Cannes and Venice and together with Karlovy Vary, Locarno is the Film Festival with the longest history...

 of 1987.

Cast

• Miguel Ángel Solá
  Miguel Ángel Solá
  Miguel Ángel Solá is a prolific Argentine actor who has made over 60 film appearances in film and TV in Argentina since 1973....
  
   as Rey
• Bárbara Mújica
  Barbara Mujica
  Barbara Mujica is an American novelist, short story writer and critic.Her latest novels are Sister Teresa , based on the life of Saint Teresa of Ávila, and Frida, based on the life of Frida Kahlo...
  
  as Isabel
• Sandra Ballesteros as "La mujer felina"
• Rubén Ballester
• Jorge Baza de Candia
• Aldo Braga as "Patricio/Weintraub"
• Mónica Lacoste
• Cipe Lincovsky as "María"
• Miguel Ruiz Díaz
• Jorge Sassi as "Rey's Alter ego"
• Osvaldo Tesser as "Rey's father"
• Antonio Ugo as "Bartender"