Friendship and Fantasy Intertwine in ‘Don’t You Let Me Go’ as It Heads to Huelva After Tribeca Win
variety.comCallum McLennan The unique joy of friendship is at the fore in helmers Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge’s “Don’t You Let Me Go.” Produced by Uruguay-based Agustina Chiarino’s Bocacha Films, the feature clinched the Noah Ephron Award at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
It marks Guevara and Jorge’s third collaboration with Bocacha, a production company at the forefront of pan-regional co-productions.
Paris-based Alpha Violet is handling international sales.The film opens at a wake. Adela, portrayed by Chiara Hourcade, reminisces with friends there to mark the death of her best friend Elena, dead at 39.
The friends and family gathered are heartfelt, polite and emotional in this most clinical and anodyne of places. “Nothing here reminds me of my sister,” remarks one.
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