The Practice
Dealing with a series of increasingly absurd situations and relationships, recently separated yoga instructors Gustavo and Vanesa are finding it difficult to live apart. Their challenges include meddling mothers, amnesiac students, and burgeoning romances. Step by step, they find their way back to the practice.
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Martín Rejtman returns to screen after a nine-year hiatus with his feature film The Practice. He is not known to be a prolific filmmaker, and this film marks his tenth work, including both features and shorts. Since the beginning of his career, Rejtman has consistently maintained a simple and light film style, almost to the point of obsession. From the unique usage of dialogue, characters’ forms of speech, and restrained visual composition to the director’s philosophy of understanding comedy films, the elements that positioned Rejtman as the starting point for New Argentine Cinema persist in his cinematic universe. This time, he presents an Argentinian yoga teacher living in Chile and depicts the protagonist in situations, such as an earthquake during class, facing divorce, dealing with a persistently nagging mother, and encountering unexpected people in life. Rejtman seems to suggest in the film that, much like yoga, enlightenment can only be achieved through practice. (Sung MOON)
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