An impossible love story that begins outside a movie theater, continues in a café and could end with the two protagonists together… if real life wasn’t much more complicated than the movies. United by their love of cinema, these two main characters decide to live the lives they dreamed of and not the lives they are destined to live. In a series of encounters, imagination triumphs over reality and everyday reality takes a back seat.
Lo que quisimos ser
Argentina / 84 min / 2024 / fiction
US Premiere
in Spanish with English subtitles
Direction: Alejandro Agresti
Screenplay: Alejandro Agresti
Cinematography: Marcelo Camorino
Editing: Alejandro Soler, Glenda Daus
Producers: Gaston Duprat, Fernando Sokolowicz, Analia Perez
Cast: Eleanora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti
Alejandro Agresti's romantic fantasy, fed by classic Hollywood films, is genuinely moving. Because of its smallness, because of its gentleness - it exists apart from a larger world of cynicism. Two people meet and are driven to know each other (by making up alternate lives for themselves) - what else is a movie but an elaborate deception, masking a great inner truth? Films allow us to become anything we want, even if that's just a lovelorn nobody, looking forward to seeing their loved one once more... - Jhon Hernandez
