The story of Xavi and Rosean Once upon a time there was a boy Javi and a girl Rosana, and they were neighbors, their parents communicated with each other, and each family valued peace and cared about the future of their children. What about the kids? They had their hobbies, were moderately capricious and selfish, like all children, tried to imitate adults and saw the future some distant at times. But then everything changed and the children lost sight of each other for twenty years. Actually, with a meeting twenty years later, this tape begins, when two adults experience moments of joy from the meeting and the sadness of memories. The past and the present are closely intertwined in their memories, tightening the spring of relations.
Despite the lack of dynamics, the film looks in one breath, as if I immersed myself in the leisurely daily life of Montevideo, where every frame breathes the sun and is full of life. The director seems to gradually plunge at first into peace, gradually adding disturbing events that ultimately lead to tragic events. At first it is presented semi-seriously as something remote, and then gradually supplanting human joys, events begin to take distinctly negative forms. And Pedro Rocha (the idol of Uruguay in the 70s) and the first sexual experiences of children, when life itself and the future are at stake, are already in the background. Again, the creators of the film very original weave football into the chain of events, childhood love, when you do not expect a trick, and after cute scenes of happiness grows a harsh reality associated with the political struggle. This confrontation has separated Xavi and Rosana, and now they have to deal with their feelings and place in life. The finale of the tape remains open, the characters will either be together or go their own way, but there is a feeling that in a small country, which is Uruguay, too long distances to be overcome.
I liked the film very much, lay on my soul something with its deliberate simplicity of presentation and complex deep meanings of what is happening. I liked the actors involved in the film and adults, and especially children who conveyed the immediacy of age.