Allez au contenu, Allez à la navigation, Allez à la recherche, Change language

Home > Festival Archives > Selections > Fiche Film

WHISKY

Film movie

Un Certain Regard
Directed by :
Juan Pablo REBELLA Pablo STOLL 
Country:
URUGUAY, ARGENTINA, SPAIN, GERMANY
Year:
2004
Duration:
100.00 minutes

Synopsis

Montevideo, Uruguay. Jacobo, a 60-year-old man, lives alone since the death of his mother, of whom he took care up to her last day. All he has in life is a humble sock factory about to go out of business.
Marta, 48, Jacobo’s right hand, has worked for him for twenty years. She is the most experienced employee, an acting supervisor who also assumes other tasks, such as keeping Jacobo out of trouble. Over the years, they have developed a relationship of mutual dependence. Neither of them could live without the other. Nonetheless, their day to day relationship seems cold.
Jacobo never talks to Marta about anything other than business matters. She tried to change that for some time but then gave up, resigned.
Herman, 55, is Jacobo’s younger brother. He is married, has two daughters and a prosperous sock factory in Brazil. He has not been to Montevideo in twenty years. He did not even come for his mother’s funeral.
A year after their mother’s death the matzeiva is celebrated, a tombstone is placed at her grave. Herman tells Jacobo he is coming for the matzeiva. Jacobo asks Marta to pretend to be his wife during Herman’s visit. Herman was always very competitive with his brother, and always won. This time, Jacobo wants at least a tie.
Marta sees Jacobo’s request as proof that she is more than just an employee to him. It is, she thinks, the reward for so many years of fidelity, and a chance to shake Jacobo out of the loneliness he has chosen for so many years.
Marta moves into Jacobo’s apartment, where there are still signs of his now-deceased mother and her terminal illness. Marta is more excited than Jacobo about fooling his brother. Herman must pay for abandoning Jacobo, his mother and the factory.

Default photo

Credits

Actors

Contacts and useful links

Production

CONTROL ZETA FILMS - Fernando EPSTEIN - Joaquín Requena 1005 11200 Montevideo - - URUGUAY - T : 5982 4100723 - F : 5982 4100722 - jarri69@yahoo.com

Distribution

MK2 - - - - - T : 33 (0)1 44 67 30 80 - F : 33 (0)1 43 07 29 63

French press

MK2 - Monica Donati - - - - T : 33 (0)1 43 07 55 22 - F : 33 (0)1 43 07 17 97 - monica.donati@mk2.com

International press

Richard Lormand - T : 33 (0)1 48 04 51 73 - F : 33 (0)1 48 04 80 43 - intelpress@aol.com

Foreign sales

BAVARIA FILM INTERNATIONAL - Thorsten Schauman Michael Weber - - - - T : 00 49 89 64 99 26 86 - F : 00 49 89 64 99 37 26 - bavaria.international@bavaria-film.de

The Official Selection 2004

Un Certain Regard