By sheer chance, I happened to watch two movies about incest in two consecutive days. The first was Italian, "Drifters" (2011), which is a cheerfully amoral take on the subject, in spite of incest being the result of the calculated seduction of a sibling by the other, and facilitated (one hopes unwittingly) by the parents. In this movie, incest is just slightly naughty, and can be willed away by pretending it didn't happen.
Gemini is a far different movie. Director Albertina Carri doesn't moralize; the sexual relation between brother and sister Jere and Meme is apparently consensual on both sides and not devoid of love (and jealousy, as the supermarket scene shows). We don't know how it began. However, it has a devastating effect in Ezequiel, the brother, and especially Lucia, the mother, who has great pretensions about her family and, as many wealthy Argentinians, believes that incest is something that happens among the lower classes. At the end of the movie the whole family is in turmoil, although we don't know what each individual knows.
I have seen two feature films by Albertina Carri, this one and Anger, "La Rabia" (2008). Both are about families apparently normal but deeply dysfunctional just below the surface. And in both movies the discovery pf the truth has dire consequences.
Direction and script (the latter by Carri and Santiago Giralt) are flawless. Excellent acting by all concerned. A superior movie in all aspects. Carri is a director to watch.
Gemini is a far different movie. Director Albertina Carri doesn't moralize; the sexual relation between brother and sister Jere and Meme is apparently consensual on both sides and not devoid of love (and jealousy, as the supermarket scene shows). We don't know how it began. However, it has a devastating effect in Ezequiel, the brother, and especially Lucia, the mother, who has great pretensions about her family and, as many wealthy Argentinians, believes that incest is something that happens among the lower classes. At the end of the movie the whole family is in turmoil, although we don't know what each individual knows.
I have seen two feature films by Albertina Carri, this one and Anger, "La Rabia" (2008). Both are about families apparently normal but deeply dysfunctional just below the surface. And in both movies the discovery pf the truth has dire consequences.
Direction and script (the latter by Carri and Santiago Giralt) are flawless. Excellent acting by all concerned. A superior movie in all aspects. Carri is a director to watch.