Sidewalls
(2011)
★ 7.5 IMDb · 321 votes
Year: 2011
Runtime: 95 мин
Country: Argentina, Germany
Director: Gustavo Taretto
Cast: Pilar López de Ayala, Javier Drolas, Inés Efrón, Rafael Ferro, Jorge Ernesto Lanata, Carla Peterson, Adrián Navarro, Romina Paula, Alan Pauls, Miguel Dedovich
Plot
Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?
Against the backdrop of modern urban alienation in bustling Buenos Aires, two perfect strangers who live across the street in their shoebox apartments--the agoraphobic web designer, Martín, and the disenchanted architect, Mariana--find themselves trapped in a sea of nearly three million inhabitants. To make matters worse, even though they live on the same street, swim in the same pool, and walk side by side, those two sensitive long-time loners have never met. But, somehow, the high and impenetrable wall that keeps them apart, may be the very thing that can bring them together. Will Mariana and Martín ever find out that they are, indeed, kindred spirits?