THE FRESHLY CUT GRASS | Celina Murga | Argentina, Uruguay, Germany, Mexico, USA | 2024 | 114’

With a stable academic career, two loving kids and a marriage long grown cold, geology professor Natalia has little relief from the doldrums of middle age other than a quiet, intense longing for handsome grad student Gonzalo. At the same university, brooding academic Pablo, sleepwalking through his own midlife malaise, begins an affair with free-spirited student Luciana. As both characters yearn for connection within marriages long shaped by deafening silence and passive aggressive maneuvering, Pablo and Natalia must come to terms with the accumulated effects of their own fear, struggling against suffocating gender expectations and the weight of their secret lives, leading to a powerful moment of reckoning for each in this refreshingly honest and frank adult drama.

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