The Whore and the Whale (2004)
- Original title
- La puta y la ballena
- Directed by
- Luis Puenzo
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Argentina, Spain
- Runtime
- 2h
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 5.2 of 10 from 20 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A Spanish writer going through a crisis discovers the story of an Argentine photographer who rescued a prostitute in Patagonia. Her life and his fate connect across time and place.
poignantmelancholicbittersweetslow-pacedatmosphericreflectivetragicinterwoven
What happens
The Whore and the Whale (La puta y la ballena) is a 2004 Hispano-Argentine drama film directed by Luis Puenzo. The film tells the interwoven stories of a Spanish writer whose life goes through various crises and an Argentine photographer who rescued a prostitute from a brothel in the far south of Patagonia but lost her and then died in the Spanish Civil War. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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