GEMINIS Latin Cinema Series

Alberto Carri’s (THE BLONDS) GEMINIS is a beautifully shot but disturbing film that peels back the skin of a middle-class family to reveal the secrets below.

Lucia and Daniel have three children: the eldest is Ezequiel, who now lives in Spain; the middle child is son Jeremias; and the youngest is the rather sullen daughter Meme. Lucia is obsessed with shaping and presenting her small clan as a model family of Argentina’s chattering class. But so consumed is she with this project that she fails to see what is unfolding beneath her very nose. When Ezequiel returns to Argentina just prior to his wedding, he begins to suspect that the natural order of his family is out of kilter. Then, one night, he is confronted with the terrible truth of family relations and the film reaches its hauntingly powerful climax.

Carri’s masterful direction and the strong performances of her young cast wooed the audiences in Director’s Fortnight at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.