Argentina-2009, 120 min.
Director- Maria Teresa Constantini
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Buenos Aires, 1862. At the age of 15, Felicitas Guerrero, eldest daughter of a large bourgeois family, of a luminous irresistible beauty, unleashes an intense passion in the romantic Enrique Ocampo, to who she responds with equal fervor.
The young couple’s fate turns as the patriarchal canon of the time established that most women passed from being their father’s property to their husband’s. Under this rule, Felicita’s father gives her in marriage to the wealthiest man of Argentina, Don Martin de Alzaga. He was 40 years her senior, nevertheless her father ignored the young girl’s pleas and instinctive resistance to such a marriage.
After a failed attempt to run away together, in which the young couple promise to each other everlasting love and the writing of letters that would keep alive their union. Enrique Ocampo heart-broken, enlists in the army. He leaves for the war in Paraguay, in a self-imposed separation from the young girl, perhaps with the hidden intention of forgetting, or more probably to seeking death.
Felicitas is a tragic story of a young couple torn between love and duty, passion and guilt in times of bloody wars, yellow fever, and the uncontrolled race toward social progress.
Buenos Aires, 1862. A la edad de 15 años, Felicitas Guerrero, hija mayor de una familia burguesa grande, de una belleza irresistible luminoso, desata una intensa pasión en el romántico Enrique Ocampo, a quien ella responde con igual fervor.
El destino de la joven pareja se convierte en el canon patriarcal de la época estableció que la mayoría de las mujeres pasó de ser de propiedad de su padre a su marido. Bajo esta regla, el padre de Felicita le da en matrimonio al hombre más rico de la Argentina, Don Martín de Alzaga. Él era 40 años mayor que ella, sin embargo, su padre ignoró las súplicas de la joven y la resistencia instintiva a ese matrimonio.
Después de un fallido intento de huir juntos, en la que la promesa joven pareja de amor eterno y la escritura de cartas que mantener viva su unión. Enrique Ocampo roto el corazón, se alista en el ejército. Se va a la guerra de Paraguay, en una separación auto-impuestas desde la joven, quizá con la secreta intención de olvidar, o más probablemente a la búsqueda de la muerte.
Felicitas es una historia trágica de una joven pareja desgarrada entre el amor y el deber, la pasión y la culpa en tiempos de guerras sangrientas, la fiebre amarilla, y la carrera desenfrenada hacia el progreso social.
About the director:
María Teresa Costantini (9 October 1949 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film actress, screenwriter and film director who has appeared in films since 1989.
Costantini directed, acted in and wrote the script for Acrobacias del Corazón in 2000, working with actors Gabriel Goity, Alejandro Awada, Virginia Innocenti and Cecilia Dopazo. Other credits include her work as an actor in the films I´ve Never Been to Vienna, Four Faces for Victoria, Sea of Love, Heartbreaker, and most recently Cities of Love in which she co-starred with Patrick Bauchau.
