In the opening scene, as Marina (Llúcia Garcia) arrives on a boat from Barcelona, on Spain’s opposite side, she tells us—in a narrative voice-over—about the temperament of the ocean and how it can be “calm and peaceful” or “wild and choppy.”
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Her icy, detached grandmother (Marina Troncoso) is obsessed with dying, and with keeping her swimming pool clean of debris; she lays down a stern warning for her grandchildren to shower before jumping in. But when it comes to family, things sometimes get messy, just like outdoor swimming pools.
Estuaries are where freshwater from mountains and streams meets saltwater in the oceans, creating thriving biosystems. In much the same way, Marina is an outsider from afar, now come to “mix” and meet with her family, itself a teeming ecosystem of history, traditions, relations—and secrets. Her cousins also tell her that for the last few years of his life, her father was “hidden” away by his parents in their home. An uncle discloses tales of drugs, needles and wild bacchanalia partying. “What didn’t they do?” he tells Marina about her mother and father. “Love and drugs aren’t a good thing.”
Director draws on her own life
The film is richly autobiographical for acclaimed director Carla Simón, who lost both her parents when she was just a child, just as Marina did, and under the same circumstances. And Marina carries around a movie camera, filming everything, declaring that she wants to study cinema at college—just like the director really did. At one point, Marina even tells a boating companion who tries to snatch her camera, “I’ll film, you sail!”
In the film’s third act, Marina leaves a local celebration to follow an alley cat down a darkened street, leading her into a surreal extended flashback in which she gets to “see” her parents before she was born, her father as a sailor, her mom a languid party girl. (In an inventive twist, shaded by subtle differences in appearance and composure, Garcia also plays Marina's mom.) Marina finds her mom’s secret journal, one she was never supposed to read, and we discover, along with her, the connective cycle of past and present, shedding new light onto things we’ve seen and heard previously.
And finally, Marina admits, "I really like the sea here."
FINAL THOUGHTS: A finely crafted dive into the past as it seeps into the present
When: In select theaters Friday, June 26; wide release later
Streaming: Expected to arrive on streaming services in 45 to 60 days.
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