La uruguaya

I found a wonderful movie about a great book. It is simple and yet complex. It keeps you intrigued until the end. It has wonderful performances and the photography is very good too. Highly recommended without a doubt.

Lucas Pereyra (Sebastián Arzeno) is a writer in his forties (his 50s are getting closer and closer) and with some success in sales, but in the midst of a creative crisis and apparently also a couple crisis, enhanced by a brand new fatherhood that he is not carrying in the most natural way. A first trip to a literary festival on a beach in Uruguay changes his perspective and energies when he falls in love with Guerra (Fiorella Bottaioli), an attractive and impulsive woman much younger than him (she is not even 30).

When he later travels to Montevideo to bring 15,000 dollars (the Argentines and their eternal strategies to bring in money while avoiding exchange controls and losses), he contacts the Uruguayan woman of the title. He does it in a big way (he rents the same room in the luxurious Radisson hotel from where Damon Albarn took a picture of the Palacio Salvo that would end up on the cover of the album Heavy Seas of Love and that years later would inspire the song The Tower of Montevideo), the reunion is drinking the most expensive imported whiskey in a bar, but as we are in the land of misadventures and entanglements, of a deformed romantic comedy with a lovable loser as the protagonist, nothing goes as planned.

It is not convenient to anticipate too much about the couple's vicissitudes because of the beautiful.