Una Novia Errante by Ana Katz

Inés - a lonely heart ? A neglected heart more likes. She should have spent her romantic holiday feet in water with her lover, but this is a false hope. Instead he gets off the coach, which is taking them to the sea, without warning. Incomprehension. Crises of tears. Worried calls. At the end of all this, it is necessary to surrender to the evidence. He has left her. What to make of it ? Abandon everything and return home… or benefit -try to benefit- from the planned holiday ?

Fortunately for the film, but not necessarily for Inés, she chooses the second option. At this point we must note that the director, always at the heels of her heroine, is no other than the heroine herself ! Ana Katz films herself appropriately, with sensibility, wandering around the seaside resort of ‘Mar de las Pampas’ out of season. Among the rare tourists there, one is a dab hand at archery. A new lonely heart ? Perhaps, except that the obese German, has floundered on this beach for many years already after a sentimental disappointment of his own. Inés might consider her possible future in him. The perspective, little rejoicing, seems to contradict the song. Perhaps the grief of one love lasts only until the next – but one still has to find it.

Matthieu Darras