Les dollars des sables (DÓLARES DE ARENA) pelicula Dominicana con la hija de Charles Chappling (Geraldine Chappling)

Sinopsis

Noelí, una joven dominicana, viaja todas las tardes a las playas de las Terrenas. Allí, junto con su pareja, busca la manera de sacar ventaja y ganar algunos dólares a costa de alguno de los centenares de turistas que rondan el lugar.

 Entre sus clientes ocasionales, Noelí mantiene uno fijo: Anne, una francesa de edad madura que con el paso del tiempo ha encontrado en la isla un refugio ideal donde pasar sus últimos años.
El novio de Noelí se hace pasar por su hermano y elabora un plan en el que Noelí viaje a París con la francesa y le envíe dinero todos los meses.
Para Noelí, la relación con Anne se basa primordialmente en la conveniencia, aunque los sentimientos se tornan ambiguos a medida que el tiempo de partir se avecina.

Nota del director

SAND DOLLARS was born from our wish to portray a world full of contradictions, contradictions that go from parties and vacations, to love, betrayal, pleasure, morality and loneliness. This is the world that emerges from the book Sand Dollars written by the French author, Jean-Noël Pancrazi; that world is, in a certain way, Samaná: the town where we previously filmed JEAN GENTIL, a place where Dominicans from the countryside coexist with other Dominicans from the capital, with Haitians, and also with a group of Europeans that have lived there for years, some of them even considered as founders of this new life here.
The film is a very free adaptation of the novel LES DOLLARS DES SABLES, using elements that contribute to create an atmosphere, Anne and Noeli’s intimate world: an impossible relationship, concern for one another and loneliness.
Anne is a migrant in the opposite direction, from France to the Dominican Republic, looking for pleasure, relaxation and to forget, instead of looking for work. And Noelí, a girl who has thoughtlessly been prostituting herself for a long time, who dreams of leaving the island and going somewhere in Europe to have a better future.
Contradictions as having to pay for company, pay to solve everyone’s problems, the wish to belong, to be helpful and useful, and the impotence of not knowing how and to always feel like an outsider. Of assuming a place, a life or going after a distant illusion.

Estreno Mundial
Toronto International Film Festival – Contemporary World Cinema (2014)

Ficha Técnica

2014, 80 min, DCP-2K, Color, 1:2.35, Dolby 5.1
República Dominicana, Argentina, México
Guión & Dirección – Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas
Adaptado de la novela “Dólares de Arena” de Jean-Noël Pancrazi
Productora – Aurora Dominicana
Co-productoras – Rei Cine, Canana Films
Productor – Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, Matías Roveda, Pablo Cruz, Laura Amelia Guzmán, Israel Cárdenas
Elenco – Geraldine Chaplin, Yanet Mojica, Ricardo Ariel Toribio
Dirección de Fotografía – Israel Cárdenas, Jaime Guerra
Dirección de Arte – Sylvia Conde
Montaje – Andrea Kleinman, Israel Cárdenas
Diseño de Sonido – Alejandro Deicaza, Diego Gat, Raul Locatelli
Música – Benjamín De Menil, Ramón Cordero, Edilio Paredes
Con el apoyo de – DG Cine – Fonprocine, INCAA, IMCINE – Foprocine/Conaculta, Programa Ibermedia, Hubert Bals Fund, Banco BHD, Grupo Viamar, Banco de Ahorro y Crédito del Caribe, Cardnet, Iaso Records, Rayo Verde Post, CineMart.
Ventas Internacionales – Figa Films


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