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ROMPECABEZAS

OFFICIAL COMPETITION BERLINALE 2010

By Natalia SMIRNOFF

ZARLEK PRODUCCIONES / CECILIA DIEZ PRODUCCIONES - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2009

- Year of production
- 2009
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy, Family
- Countries
- ARGENTINA, FRANCE
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 87 mn
- Director(s)
- Natalia SMIRNOFF
- Writer(s)
- Natalia SMIRNOFF
- Cast
- María ONETTO, Gabriel GOITY, Arturo GOETZ, Mirta WONS, Henny TRAILES
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-36A9-0000-L-0000-0000-B
- EIDR
- 10.5240/599C-268F-85B8-A3D9-D957-U
- Producer(s)
- Gabriel PASTORE (Carrousel Films), Luis SARTOR (Zarlek Producciones), Caroline DHAINAUT (Las Niñas Pictures)
- Synopsis
- Maria del Carmen celebrates her 50th birthday. She has not celebrated anything for a long time. Her sons are leaving. Her "mother's period" is reaching an end.
  This is when a present appears. It uncovers an unknown passion in her, that chance to start doing something incredibly well, hidden up to then: the puzzle.
  This becomes her great moment. She starts to get obsessed; everything turns into anxiety to be there, assembling. Assembling puzzles becomes the center of her life. Her family questions this time devoted to a non-productive activity. She cannot take this questioning. She decides to go underground, to be let alone with her passion.
  The pursuit of the game leads her to Roberto, a millionaire that wants to participate in the Puzzle World Championship, in Germany. And for that, he is willing to train hard.
  She is a middle-class housewife from the outskirts of Buenos Aires, all these represent a hole new world for her, but he insists and she accepts to start playing.
  The puzzle turns into a symbol of change that takes her to discover a new María del Carmen who must decide on her own place in the world.