Mangrove

A L'ensemble des Films du Tigre, Red-colored Star Cinema, Radio Television Suisse production. (Worldwide sales: L'ensemble des Films Tigre, Geneva.) Created by Frederic Choffat, Julie Gilbert, Cedric Walter, Francoise Mayor. Directed by Frederic Choffat, Julie Gilbert. Script, Gilbert.With: Vimala Pons, Solal, Efren Mendez Avalos, Fabian Tellez-Cau, Amalia Canseco Hernandez, Jean-Christophe Hereil, Patrick Pasquier. (The spanish language, French dialogue)A French femme travels to the seaside Mexican village where she accustomed to live to be able to make peace using the past within the humidly atmospheric but underwhelming Franco-Swiss co-production "Mangrove." Stingy with dialogue but generous with shots of individuals searching thoughtful while canoeing through swamps, pic by Swiss co-helmers Frederic Choffat and Julie Gilbert plays just like a padded-out short wrapped around an basically melodramatic conceit. A minimum of it's blessedly brief and features pretty scenery, which must help "Mangrove" to clean on a couple of further fest shores. Together with her youthful boy (Solal) with you, an un named lady (French thesp Vimala Pons) comes to the little Mexican village about the Off-shore coast where, per flashbacks, she accustomed to live and fell deeply in love with a nearby guy (Efren Mendez Avalos), who's tellingly not around in pic's present tense. She paddles a canoe together with her kid deep in to the mangrove swamp to search up a mysterious knife, and meets another Gallic expat (Fabian Tellez-Cau) who will get her taking into consideration the past. The large reveal reps a shrug-inducing so-what cast looks enervated throughout in the location's warmth.Camera (color, HD-to-35mm), Patrick Tresch editor, Cecile Dubois music, Pierre Audetat production designer, Alex Jomaron. Examined at Locarno Film Festival (competing), August.10, 2011. Running time: 66 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com