Aguas Verdes (Green Water) – 7

Nigel Gilchrist, noted travel writer in dialogue at the SB Museum on Thursday, pointed out how important travel was to the understanding of art: one should experience of the theatricality of everyday life in Rome to appreciate the works of Caravaggio, Bernini, et al. The same can be said for the cinema, and our recent visits to Brazil and Argentina supplied the context for our enjoyment of this family dramedy from Argentina in which an uptight father can’t cope with the open sexuality of their beach vacation to Aguas Verdes. More than the story, this film was fun for the characters – the fat, bratty son, the sexually emerging daughter, the mysteriously romantic Lothario who broke the camel’s back and ended up in the drink.