Fisherman

Sebastian Cordero's Fisherman (Ecuadoe, 2012) - In 2007, Juan Fernando Andrade published “CONFESSIONS OF A COCAINE FISHERMAN”, based on a story about a group of fishermen who discover a shipment of cocaine on the beach. Andrade worked with Sebastián Cordero on an adaptation of his novel to incorporate the doubts that habitually torment the director’s characters. Blanquito, one of the fishermen, decides not to risk selling the drugs in El Matal, the town in the Colombian province of Manabí where he is from. Instead, he teams up with Lorna, who needs the money to get back to her native Colombia and find her daughter. From here on in, Pescador adopts the format of a road movie that takes us to Guayaquil and Quito, past geographies that merge with the physical and spiritual landscapes of the characters and that leave Blanquito standing at a crossroads, faced with his “loss of innocence”. Colombia’s María Cecilia Sánchez gives an imposing performance as Lorna. 2011SANShl, 2012CAR. RATING: 7