Los labios

  • 100'
  • Argentina
  • 2010
Three women at an Argentine bus station. They don’t know each other, but take a night bus to a deserted hospital in the tropical north of the country. This will be their base to offer health care; Coca, Luchi and Noe visit inhabitants of remote villages who are plagued by poverty, hunger and dengue fever.
We see a mother with six kids, an unemployed man looking for two small children, a 78-year-old man suffering malnutrition and a teenage girl who is pregnant for the second time - probably by her father.
The patients are ‘played’ by people from the local population. Integrating documentary elements in a fiction film has been used in several recent Argentine films; Santiago Loza (Tiger Award winner in 2003 with Extraño) and Iván Fund use it most emphatically use in this dignified, very human drama. When Coca, Luchi and Noe do each other’s hair and lipstick in hospital, it’s obviously set up. It forms a shrill and sad contrast with the harsh reality they meet on their missions of care.

  • 100'
  • Argentina
  • 2010
Directors
Iván Fund, Santiago Loza
Country of production
Argentina
Year
2010
Festival Edition
IFFR 2011
Length
100'
Medium
HDcam
International title
The Lips
Language
Spanish
Producers
Iván Eibuszyc, Iván Fund, Santiago Loza
Production Company
Morocha Films
Sales
Latinofusion
Screenplay
Iván Fund, Santiago Loza
Cinematography
María Laura Collasso
Editor
Lorena Moriconi
Production Design
Adrián Suárez
Sound Design
Leandro de Loredo, Alejandro Seba
Music
Iván Fund, Lisandro Rodríguez
Cast
Victoria Raposo, Eva Bianco
Directors
Iván Fund, Santiago Loza
Country of production
Argentina
Year
2010
Festival Edition
IFFR 2011
Length
100'
Medium
HDcam
International title
The Lips
Language
Spanish
Producers
Iván Eibuszyc, Iván Fund, Santiago Loza
Production Company
Morocha Films
Sales
Latinofusion
Screenplay
Iván Fund, Santiago Loza
Cinematography
María Laura Collasso
Editor
Lorena Moriconi
Production Design
Adrián Suárez
Sound Design
Leandro de Loredo, Alejandro Seba
Music
Iván Fund, Lisandro Rodríguez
Cast
Victoria Raposo, Eva Bianco