‘The Days Off’ Is a “Love Letter to That Internet That No Longer Quite Exists” (Exclusive Locarno Trailer)
You can already feel that The Days Off (Los días libres), Argentine filmmaker Lucila Mariani’s first feature, touches on female identity and coming-of-age...
Key points
- You can already feel that The Days Off (Los días libres), Argentine filmmaker Lucila Mariani’s first feature, touches on female identity and coming-of-age themes.
- But there is also a technology and virtual worlds aspect that comes into play.
- “Los días libres explores themes that I have been drawn to throughout my career, such as horror, female identity, our relationship with technology and the virtual world and the limits of cinematic language,” Mariani highlights in a director’s statement.
- The internet was deeply formative in my life: it was where I met friends when I couldn’t find them in the real world, where I pirated music and films that otherwise would never have been within my reach in my country.
What happened
You can already feel that The Days Off (Los días libres), Argentine filmmaker Lucila Mariani’s first feature, touches on female identity and coming-of-age themes. But there is also a technology and virtual worlds aspect that comes into play. “Los días libres explores themes that I have been drawn to throughout my career, such as horror, female identity, our relationship with technology and the virtual world and the limits of cinematic language,” Mariani highlights in a director’s statement. The internet was deeply formative in my life: it was where I met friends when I couldn’t find them in the real world, where I pirated music and films that otherwise would never have been within my reach in my country. In many ways, the internet taught me how to dream.” Concludes the writer-director: “This film is an open love letter to that internet – the one that no longer quite exists, the one that is changing. A refuge for those who don’t quite fit in and who, like me, needed cinema, the internet, something to hold on to and believe in.” THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day