名称：海滩度假胜地
又名：Bathing Resorts
年代：2002
类型：纪录片
语言：西班牙语
国家：阿根廷
导演：马里亚诺·利纳斯
演员：维罗妮卡·利纳斯 / Mario Mactas / Alejandro Zucco / Cesar Zucco
剧情：Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2003 Won Silver Condor Best Argentinean Video Film (Mejor Videofilm Argentino)
Mariano Llinás
This movie is a documentary about "balnearios". I don't know the exact translation to english, but they're tourism towns or little cities by the seacoast, or near some water fountain. The movie shows the singularity of these places and how people enjoy them.
The movie don't want to show big places but little ones. It's centered in margins, in little tourism places, almost without people living there. The life in these places is narrated in detail, with an external yet friendly look. It's divided in 4 episodes.
After a melancholic introduction that relates how the 'balnearios' that born in a different time, compulsorily (and not gracefully) had to adapt to the pass of time, the first episodes begins, telling a mystic crime story in an old hotel, leaving me thinking if every little town has its epic tragedy, its own legend. The second episode is the heart of the movie, and its about the contrast between the season and the out-of-season, the unexplainable customs of the tourists, about the people at the 'balnearios' in general. It is narrated very gracefully. The people laughed a lot in the cinema.
The third episode is the shorter and the worst, IMO. Tell the story of Miramar, a town on the seacoast that is half flooded, the streets finishing under the sea. The fourth episode is about 'balnearios' on river coasts, little lagoons, or dikes, and it's centered in Zucco, an amateur painter(His personality remains me to Ed Wood) that paint the 'balneario' where he lives. He has written down and stored every dream he had. He talks with Neptune. The episode tells a 'balneario'-related dream he had once, his thoughts, and show some of his work. This episode is maybe too long, but funny. And it shows the spirit of these different 'balnearios', too.
Title：Balnearios
Year：2002
Genre：Documentary
Language：Spanish
Country：Argentina
Director：Mariano Llinás
Actors：Verónica Llinás / Mario Mactas / Alejandro Zucco
Plot：Lifeguards, luxury hotels from early XXth Century, mermaids, sea animals and sand castles gather in this labyrinthine essay. A documentary about balnearios, Argentine bath resorts and the idea of cities dedicated exclusively to idleness, empty along the winter months and crowded in the summer.
