Kept & Dreamless [Import]

A film very similar to "Mas que a Nada en el Mundo" about a 9-year-old girl struggling to cope with her drug-dependent mother during Argentina's economic crisis. There is a certain amount of humour, but the situations are still fairly grim - the film opens with a sequence in which the mother takes the money her own mother has given her to have an abortion to pay off a drug-dealer. The girl's father is absent and her attempts to meet him form an important through-line in the film. To be classified with those many other films in which the daughter is more mature than the mother. Unrated but equivalent to 'M' for language, drug references, and sexual situations. There is one extraordinary scene towards the very end of the film in which the girl's grandmother teaches her to insert a pad - although the camera maintains a respectful distance, it is still a full frontal nude scene of a young girl exploring herself and may be offensive to delicate US sensibilities (but presumably perfectly normal in South America).

The film is properly in 16:9 format but due to a technical error appears "stretched" so that all the actors are too wide - this can be rectified by using the zoom function on your television to convert the image to proper 16:9 format. The disc is not region-locked, so it should play on any player.