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Thankfully, Anaya and Vicuña, both also credited as co-producers, deliver two emotionally potent performances that help overcome the film’s few weaknesses, with local audiences no-doubt closely watching Vicuña, who lost his own 6-year-old daughter with well-known Argentinean model Pampita in 2012 (the South American press was reportedly in a collective shock).

'La memoria del agua' is profound journey to love and life, actress says.Their final confrontation, in a wintry forest, is one of the film’s highlights and feels like vintage Bize, with the couple’s minutes-long conversation - which touches on Pedro’s innocence, everyone’s guilt and how being together again would erase Pedro’s existence - unspooling in a sequence of tight shots and reverse shots that underlines the couple’s separate points of view before cutting to a medium two-shot in which the two dark-haired parents face each other, with their wiry figures in black coats almost blending into the background of leafless trees, as if they too had become spectral presences.īut his presence here hardly qualifies as stunt casting, with Vicuña and his on-screen “non-partner” Anaya, both in their first film with Bize, delivering carefully calibrated, hushed yet emotionally rich work throughout.

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Santiago, Aug 30 (EFE).- 'La memoria del agua' (The Memory of Water), the latest film by Chilean director Matias Bize, 'is a dark and profound - but also marvelous - journey' addressing the experience of life and love, said Spanish actress Elena Anaya, who stars in it.Īcknowledged for her work with Pedro Almodovar, Anaya praised Bize and, in remarks to EFE, discussed the details of filming the project, which will begin showing this week in Chile.Īnaya has acted in films such as 'Lucia y el sexo,' 'Van Helsing' (along with Hugh Jackman) and 'Dead Fish' (with Gary Oldman), but her image is closely tied to Almodovar after her participation in two of his most highly acclaimed works: 'Talk to Her' and 'The Skin I Live In.'Īnaya is now displaying her dramatic talent with Chilean actor Benjamin Vicuña in 'La memoria del agua,' the latest work by the director of 'The Life of Fish' (2010), which won the Goya and Buñuel awards. The Spanish actress plays Amanda, a young woman who, after her son's death, experiences an emotional crisis that distances her from her partner, Javier (Vicuña).Īfter contacting her to propose the project, Bize traveled to Madrid to discuss the details of the story and the characters with her. 'We spent several days speaking about our experiences in life regarding the issues that we would later deal with in the film,' Anaya said.

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