Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas : 2014
Sand Dollars
In an idyllic seaside city in the Dominican Republic, the long-time relationship between a beautiful and impoverished young local girl and her wealthy European lover is put to the test as issues of class, inequality and exploitation rise to the surface. Twenty-year-old Noeli has been involved in a relationship for two years with the much older Anne. Anne is absolutely smitten with her young lover and prone to jealousy when she sees her talking with anyone else. Despite the money that regularly passes between them, neither Noeli, who lives with her boyfriend, nor Anne considers their relationship to be one of prostitution; but, ultimately, Anne represents one of the few employment opportunities available to a young woman in an economy that operates on various forms of tacit exploitation. Exploring this unbalanced relationship without judgment, the film offers an incisive portrait of an increasingly pervasive postcolonial reality. Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas's third feature premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2014.
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