In Transoceanicas the subtitles are not such, but texts of the letters that its two protagonists, after having lived together, exchange after returning to their respective cities: Barcelona and Buenos Aires. Each line condenses common feelings and evokes something that has happened to you, that you have thought about or experienced at some point in your life. So, from the very beginning you become a reader of that intimate postal correspondence, in which you participate in silence.
The two women who co-direct this film, the Argentinean Lucía Vassallo and the Catalan Meritxell Colell, share with the viewer experiences, doubts and everyday moments, recording the urban and rural environment of their landscapes and their works, naturally, without artifice, creating a domestic atmosphere that is nevertheless very suggestive. The fact that someone looks at the city in a way that accelerated pedestrians and even more accelerated drivers have stopped looking at it gives us back our appreciation for the place where we live our lives.
The letters, telephone and Skype connections consolidate a friendship, further sustained by the dedication of both to cinema, which resists distance in a world where this concept has changed completely. The proximity to friends, family, acquaintances or work colleagues is now more than ever established in the solidity of the attitude, in the firmness of conceiving the days as something collective, which is only enriched by sharing them.
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