Dive (2022) director Lucía Puenzo, Amazon.
Posted by celticman on Fri, 19 May 2023
Mariel (Karla Souza) is almost thirty. She’s been a fixture in Mexican diving team since she was fourteen, winning a bronze medal at the Olympics. But she’s never fulfilled her potential, never got that elusive gold. Never come close. She always seems to fuck up. Self-sabotage as her diving guru Brualio (Hernán Mendoza) puts it.
‘He saw me,’ Mariel insists.
But now he saw another fourteen-year-old girl, Nadia (Déja Ebergeny). She’s his new protégé. His new little product. He insists Mariel works with her as they go for gold in the 2004 Summer Olympics. It’s all or nothing for Mariel. But she knows Braulio’s relationship to Nadia is fucked up. Based on a true story. Of course it is. True and wonderfully complex.
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