When Lisa and French phone getting daughter Alison that their son Jack is in the hospital after a skiing accident

When Lisa and French phone getting daughter Alison that their son Jack is in the hospital after a skiing accident, decides the now divorced couple together for fifteen years to go Jack. By car they drive to the top of the Alps to pick up their son Jack, so they can convalesce at home in Brussels. The dreamy, slightly chaotic Lisa and little rigid business French seem to be diametrically opposed. How they will come together by the two-day trip, now they are so long without each other?

Marion Hänsel wanted to show a simple chronological story of a divorced couple. About ordinary people, both small and deeper feelings. But mostly a positive story, because according Hänsel movies about divorce and break up relationships all end badly. With La Tendresse she certainly succeeded in a simple form to put a positive spin on the relationship of a divorced couple. But whether this really well as well doubtful unpack.

namely the film remains quite aimlessly, because the relationship between French and Lisa going nowhere. They show that they are actually both have reconciled the split and chuckle at the bad qualities of each other where they are so ?? s huge disliked in the past. And continues it. No dramatic buildup leading to a reconciliation with reality, not even a denouement actually. The relationship between Jack and his newest Alison somewhere floats in a vacuum, and the fleeting flirtation between Lisa and Leo lifter. Therefore it feels entirely like a story without beginning and end.

The characters also make personal little change through. Their characteristics and mutual irritations are outlined on the basis of external situations. For example, if Lisa trapped on the way sitting on the toilet of a petrol station and French notes that this can only happen Lisa. It fascinates, but at the same time it reaches Hänsels aim to make a film about the ordinary person. Just do not get anything for the average person no real-life soap opera, it would be too boring.

La Tendresse does offer a nice game of Marilyne Canto, usually with her character for the cheerful tone of the film creates. Along with Adrien Jolivet she knows very convincing to put down the mother-son relationship. You almost literally see the similarities between the two, when they really are not biologically related. The other actors know the subtle trend would drop to catch good Marion Hänsel. Furthermore, the simplistic lapping La Tendresse aimlessly on. The bland, wide views fit well with.

God, or whoever up there also directs, has a clear, but especially left wet message for a torn Uruguayan family. In the bleak holiday resort where Alberto and his two kids have seen it together to grub is not doing flicker and the rain comes pouring down from the sky. The pool seems to be the only potential base but to make matters worse inaccessible by any downpours. There is not even a television in the small house, so it is quite rehabilitation for adolescents Lucía and Federico. Palief and Alberto had to spend still as planned for lots of quality time with his kids after a problematic divorce. He thought that with some games and a holiday in one - would certainly good come sunlit bungalow - in the folders. Alberto tries to make the best of it, but the walls are soon on the trio off.

Given the premise you would think the South American drama Tanta Agua (whichever applicable translates as So Much Water ) of the conflicts between all members of the family hangs together. Surprisingly enough this is not the basis on which the interaction between the characters is developing, but it is mainly down to the relationship between father and offspring. Siblings bicker something in the cottage, but mostly go their own way. Pa Alberto tries to entertain his children as much as possible, and Lucía and Federico are even willing to have a long way to go. Especially the will of the oldest daughter Lucía, leading to conflicts. Attempts by the teen girl still a little entertainment are initially blocked as much as possible by her father.

Yet Alberto has a weak character, if he feels he has to do what's right. This ensures that he often still tacks. Alberto has since the departure of his children after the divorce no idea what is going on in their heads. Lucía gets amorous with a tough guy in the park, which really only picks up with her to get in touch with Lucia ?? s girlfriend. Federico is concerned with much simpler things working, is not bad at puberty and hangs around a bit with a neighbor. It escapes father Alberto almost complete, because his ego is trying to boost by applying it with a blonde, for him too beautiful woman. The family lives, even within the fences of a holiday completely past each other, which leads to miscommunication and misunderstandings.

Tanta Agua is written and directed by the duo Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge; two rookies that perfectly fit in the development of modern South American cinema. In Uruguay do not you think the same as a film. Yet in recent years there are strong productions from Montevideo and surrounding areas that are increasingly a free-spirited character. Tanta Agua fog partly due to the relatively flat theme and balanced characters clearly zeitgeist of the work of Pablo Stoll and Juan Pablo Rebella. However, it is an amusing and at times fell tale about family members who have to break the mutual alienation and immense boredom.