Summaries

16-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul of a middle-aged doctor.

ENT physicians gather at a provincial hotel in Salta. The hotel owner, Helena, is subdued, brittle, avoiding the calls of her ex-husband's pregnant wife. Family dysfunction seems everywhere. Helena's daughter, Amalia, about 14, discusses vocations in a Catholic girls group. Their teen imaginations conflate the erotic, the religious, and the lurid. Amalia notices Dr. Jano, and he notices her. She decides to make him her vocation, she follows him, he rubs against her in a public crowd, he's appalled at his actions. Meanwhile, Helena believes Jano is attracted to her even though he's married. Longing, guilt, scandal, and teen sensuality are set to collide.—<[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • coming of age
  • female female kiss
  • catholic
  • catholicism
  • teenage girl sexual awakening
Genres
  • Drama
Release date May 5, 2004
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin Italy Netherlands Argentina Spain
Language Spanish
Filming locations Salta, Argentina
Production companies R&C Produzioni Teodora Film La Pasionaria S.r.l.

Box office

Budget $1400000
Gross US & Canada $304124
Opening weekend US & Canada $28327
Gross worldwide $1261792

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 46m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

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