Aire

Summary

Nothing could be further from the melodrama than this harrowing story about a mother who must meet up with a son who has been injured at school.

The film is another clear example of how a good actress (Julieta Zylberberg), a good script and a good director (Arturo Castro Godoy) can bring us a great little movie.

Review

Lucía (Julieta Zylberberg) lives alone with her young son, a boy with Asperger's Syndrome, in the city of Santa Fe. In the middle of the morning, she receives a call at work from school informing her that her son had fallen. From there, all her everyday life falters.

Lucía makes an eventful journey to reunite with her son, who confronts her with an atypical day where labor relations, with the school and with other bureaucracies are problematized. The accident puts into crisis the precariousness that underlies his day to day.

In this way, that mother, who also suffers from asthma (hence the title of the film), will experience situations of challenge, anguish, suffocation and even suspense, which bring the film closer to a kind of non-police thriller.

Zylberberg performs an admirable performance, transmitting to the viewer all the anguish and impetus of Lucía, at the service of a precise script and direction by Arturo Castro Godoy. You could say that the film is pure action and tension, with a dryness that bluntly eludes melodrama.

In short, Air is another clear example of how a good actress, a good script and a good director can bring us a great little movie.