La uruguaya

Lucas Pereyra is a writer going through a mid-life crisis who seems to find relief for his everyday frustrations –his partner, his fatherhood, his economy– in a long-awaited getaway to Montevideo. His excuse is to avoid Argentina’s currency exchange restrictions, but the truth is he actually dreams of reuniting with a girl –quite younger than him– whom she met during a previous trip and with whom he has been maintaining a playful long-distance bond. But in between desire and reality, an abyss seems to open—perhaps Lucas will discover, the hard way, that neither women nor cities exist to satisfy male fantasies. An adaptation of Pedro Mairal’s successful novel, La uruguaya establishes a very astute dialogue with the original work—without betraying the source material, it challenges the point of view and proposes a female look on a conflict that tends to be tackled through the eyes of men.