''The Two Waters'' ( es, A dos aguas) is a 1988

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directed by Carlos Olguin-Trelawny, his ''opera prima'', and written Martha Gavensky starring

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and Bárbara Mújica.

Plot

In Buenos Aires on Christmas Eve 1983, Rey (Miguel Ángel Solá) and Isabel (Bárbara Mujica), two old college friends, bump into each other at a restaurant. It has been fifteen years since they last saw each other. Isabel has just returned from exile; Rey had just wanted to be alone, wrestling with his own personal demons. This by-chance encounter with Isabel takes Rey back to his college days when he was secretly in love with her. "A dos aguas" (''The Entire Life'') is a look at the effects of years spent living under a brutal dictatorship and peoples' desperate rush to recover lost time. Perhaps more importantly, it depicts the pain of being an orphan in both a physical and spiritual sense.

Release

Praised by critics as the first ''post-modern'' Latin American film.
"A dos aguas" premiered on April 28, 1988 in

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and in various European countries most notably

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in October 1988. "A dos aguas" was produced by Avica Producciones and Jorge Estrada Mora Producciones (JEMPSA) and distributed worldwide by Metropolis Films (Zürich, CH).

Reception

Director Carlos Olguin-Trelawny won a Special Mention at the 40th

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of 1987.

Cast

as Rey *

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as Isabel * Sandra Ballesteros as "La mujer felina" * Rubén Ballester * Jorge Baza de Candia * Aldo Braga as "Patricio/Weintraub" * Mónica Lacoste *

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as "María" * Miguel Ruiz Díaz * Jorge Sassi as "Rey's Alter ego" * Osvaldo Tesser as "Rey's father" * Antonio Ugo as "Bartender"

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* 1988 films 1988 drama films 1980s Spanish-language films Argentine drama films 1980s Argentine films {{1980s-drama-film-stub