''Géminis'' is a 2005
Argentine-French drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
written and directed by
Albertina Carri. It is set in a rich family where two
adolescent
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children have started an
incest
Incest ( ) is sexual intercourse, sex between kinship, close relatives, for example a brother, sister, or parent. This typically includes sexual activity between people in consanguinity (blood relations), and sometimes those related by lineag ...
uous relationship.
Synopsis
Meme and her brother Jere are
teenagers, still at home under a passive father, Daniel, and a massively domineering mother, Lucía. Ezequiel, the eldest child, arrives from Spain with his
bride
A bride is a woman who is about to be married or who is a newlywed.
When marrying, if the bride's future spouse is a man, he is usually referred to as the ''bridegroom'' or just ''groom''. In Western culture, a bride may be attended by a maid, ...
Montse, who finds both the family and the society of upper-middle-class Argentina hollow and pretentious. Gradually, the other characters learn that Meme and Jere, neither of whom has developed satisfactory outside links, have started an incestuous
sexual relationship.
Cast
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Cristina Banegas as Lucía
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Daniel Fanego as Daniel
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María Abadi as Meme
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Lucas Escáriz as Jeremías
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Damián Ramonda as Ezequiel
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Silvia Baylé as Olga
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Julieta Zylberberg as Montse
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Lucrecia Capello as Nené
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Carlos Durañona as Jorge
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Beatriz Spelzini as Inés
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Gogó Andreu as Lucio
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Vivi Tellas as Ana
External links
Ficha técnicacinenacional.com
Entrevista a Albertina Carri, pagina12.com.ar, 9 de junio de 2005
Entrevista a Albertina Carri, clarin.com, 9 de junio de 2005
2005 films
Films about twins
Argentine drama films
2000s Spanish-language films
Films shot in Argentina
Films about incest
Films about juvenile sexuality
2000s Argentine films
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