I admirebthe way the film creates vtension all through it, we think the shit is going to hit the fan sooner or later.
I like the ending very much, it fits so well with the rest of the film…
How so? I’m interested in hearing your interpretation of the ending.
For me, the fact that the film veers away from the finale between Jano and Moran’s character and focuses on the two girls floating in the pool makes me think the film was really a coming-of-age film. Still, I’m not sure how Jano and Moran’s character fit in with that story.
The ending leaves what happens next up to us. And formally the composition of the pool scene says the end from the moment it frames the pool and the girls. When I was watching the film I knew that was the last shot
and I thought it was perfect. Reminded me of Antonioni endings.
The story of Jano and Moran was secondary to the story of the girl so it may be a coming of age film after all.
Sorry if I cant elaborate more but to me this film is really above any analysis I can give as it is so cinematic it actuallly defeat my words.
It is a coming of age film, a film about burgeoning sexuality, it just happens to pay attention to everything on the periphary as well (meaning that all three other major characters are fleshed out beyond being just someone the girl is in contact with – they all feel like real characters who existed before the film started and will continue to exist after it ends).
The ending is very sly. The film is very much about represion to an extent and so too are the characters feelings represed at the end.
No one is mentioning the religious angle?
The substitution of religion for judgment?
What do you think the film is saying about the way people substitute religion for judgment—and what, specifically, do you mean by that?
What do you think the film is saying about the way people substitute religion for judgment—and what, specifically, do you mean by that?
What is significance of Moran’s character, Helena, in the film? Dr. Jano?
Does the film take a disparaging attitude towards Helena? Is it mocking her?
What about Dr. Jano? As bad as he was, I felt sympathy for him—especially in that scene where Amalia sits next to him and tells him that he is good.
Not so much mocking her but exposing her petit burg. ways.
Dr Jano (Janus-two faces?) is facing at least a nasty divorce.
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I’ve been trying to watch Martel’s films, since she’s one of the directors chosen for the Garage 21 program. I had a lukewarm reaction to The Swamp, but I liked this. The framing was unusual, but appealing at the same time. Martel, in an interview, talked about the way merging of vocation and emerging sexuality. I really liked that aspect of the film.
What did people think of make of the ending—particularly the way the film avoids showing what happens to Jano and the Mercedes Moran’s character (can’t remeber her name)?
On one level, I think the film is largely a coming-of-age film, but I don’t know how Moran’s character fit into the story.