On Each Side
On Each Side - First Run Features
"On Each Side" (A Cada Lado) is quite an interesting film. It takes you along and, by the end, you are trying to figure out what the plot was, but you are satisfied anyway. Director Hugo Grosso ably captured a particular place in time and its people, creating a unique and captivating document of our times.
The story - or stories, for that matter - takes place in the cities of Victoria and Rosario, in Argentina, while a bridge to connect both cites, which are separated by the Paraná River, is being constructed. This is a colossal project which will affect the lives of the people in both towns, as well as the rest of the country. The film starts just when the bridge's construction is at its first stages and ends when it opens the public. While all this takes place, we meet an assortment of characters that live at both sides of the river, and whose lives will be affected by this enterprise. The main one, we might think, is a...
I didn't care about these characters
Little in this caught my attention, though it does evoke a place in the world I know nothing about. The character development is weak. We are never given a real reason to care about anyone in this film. The point seems to be something vaguely unclear about people who are separated by various things, some invisible, some emotional, some temporal. It's kind of high concept, really. But the plot is absent. The photography is good and so is the film technique.
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