Esteros

A deceivingly quiet flim loaded with power hiding under the surface.

From the beauty of the estuaries (for which the fim is named) to the revealing hairstyles of the main characters, it's all there: much deeper than the estuaries themselves. the pace gives you the opportunity to take it all in, if you choose to do so.

I expected to see it from a long, long time. First, for the title. Second, for a special sketch of hope to be real different. And it is it. And, in same measure, it is a beautiful film. Beautiful is a fair term about a film who escapes from the old cliches. A film about the traces of childhood, about love and happiness , about a sort of refuge and powerful friendship. At the first sigh, nothing new. But one of films being, in special way, just delightful. For grace and delicacy and precision of story, for good acting and, no doubts, for estuary. Comfortable can be a good term to define it . For a sort of poetry of small, significant things defining us. So, I love it !

Two childhood friends loose each other with time and are reunited by chance. There was a close bond between the two young boys. On their reunion as adults, the love is still there. As they go back to the old homestead where they once played, the now adults know what real love is and the one that moved away as a child is willing to give up a beautiful woman and a financially comfortable job for the love of his life that he had never stopped loving. Reviewers say that they were separated by their parents who noticed the boys were too close but this is not the case. The father of the boy who moved away, simply accepted a job in Buenos Aires. This is sweet, not coming of age story, but a story of when one half of a heart is reunited with its counterpart after years of separation.

A nice, positive coming-to-terms film. I have to admit that I didn't find the movie all that engaging. I can't say why exactly because it wasn't boring, per se, and I certainly didn't want the usual stereotypical conflicts that tend to crop up in these kinds of films. I actually appreciate that though the storyline isn't a new one, it wasn't stacked with unnecessary drama and didn't drag out the will they/won't they aspect, though that is in large part due to the fact that the film takes place over a few days with flashbacks to when the characters were younger to fill in the pieces. In essence, the real development takes place when they're young and they pick up where they left off when they reunite as adults.

The scenery is lovely and the actors certainly have chemistry. Jero is especially captivating, both the younger and older actors are excellent. Perhaps that's where the dissonance is for me as I didn't find adult Mati all that interesting. Still, a decent enough film amidst the usual drivel. Definitely not a bad way to spend 90 minutes.

Esteros is a coming-out-terms movie about a childhood friends who attracted to each other.

Matias and Jeronimo are kids who the parents friend with each other. They both are inseparable since then. Eventually they started attracted to each other as kids but unfortunately Matias's family must go to Brazil because of the job and leaving their hometown and Jeronimo.

Many years passed, Matias back to the town but he had girlfriend. Fate coming to rescue, they reunited again not knowing it beforehand and all the feeling to each other resurface.

You will see both of them trying to nostalgia the time and place when they were kids, but you also seeing the struggle from both of them. From Mati who always tries to throw away and forget whatever he felt toward his friend and Jero tries to show a hint to his friend what he felt because he's been patiently waited over the decade.

I love and I think it's sweet how Jero still do and remembering what they always do together as kids. But get frustated when found out Mati always tries to forget and remove Jero whenever he tell his girlfriend about his childhood life. But I know the reason why he doing that though.

The estuaries is beautiful, quite and relaxing. A place like that is needed nowadays. I like it.