The Dress

Two subjective visions on the same events of a clandestine love story, which is sharply interrupted. The “real world” is at stake with the irruption of desire. Ana, a young and beautiful obstetrician, goes to a party organized by a colleague. Two encounters that will have an impact on her life took place that night: she meets Fernando, a married architect several years older than her, with whom she falls in love; and she also meets Alex again, a friend and persisting suitor, recently divorced, father of Azul; a seven year old girl. After that night when they run away together, (though later they will recall different versions of the same fact), Ana and Fernando build a relationship parallel to his marriage, which gradually becomes unbearable. Fernando and Ana have a peculiar idea about life: which is the true real world? Ana keeps waiting for him a sunday afternoon, at a curious art installation, a labyrinth which transports Ana into her own memories, without imagining what is going on. Unaware that he is looking at her without being seen, unaware of the fact that while she is waiting for him, Fernando decides to leave. The film starts some years later than that Sunday afternoon. Ana has now a relationship with Alex and his little daughter Azul, with whom she keeps a powerful identification.

Paula de Luque is a filmmaker, choreographer, and dancer. She graduated from the Colon Theater’s Superior Art School. She was a dancer with the Buenos Aires Colon Theater’s Stable Ballet Company. In 1987 she started devoting herself to Contemporary Dance, participating as interpreter in different groups in Buenos Aires and Europe. She has been a member of Nucleodanza, Contemporary Dance Company, during 10 years participating in numerous tours through the United States, Europe, Australia, and Indonesia besides performing throughout Argentina and in the city of Buenos Aires. In 1993 she started exploring video filmmaking and experimenting with film and dance languages. She belongs of the first generation of Videodance filmmakers of Argentina. Cielo azul cielo negro (Blue Sky Black Sky) was her first feature fiction film and was premiered internationally at the 57th Locarno International Film Festival, in 2004. In 2006 she directed Todas esas Cosas (All those things), documentary feature film about the sexual minoritite’s history, and also Quince minutos de gloria (Fifteen glory minutes), a TV movies produced by Canal 7. The Dress is her second feature.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA