Podstata touhy – Guelfenbein Carla (2024)

She is a successful writer with a fresh traumatic experience, he is a charismatic lawyer and globetrotter. Both are in their prime and both come from Chile. Shortly after their meeting in London, they are consumed by mutual passion and heat, heralding a tumultuous long-distance love affair. The longed-for meetings of the two lovers, in addition to uninhibited sex and erotic experiments, are filled with conversations about literature and sharing their deepest secrets, while inventive love games constantly break and push their inner boundaries. However, the initial blissful haze gradually fades, replaced by other companions of love – jealousy, possessiveness, lies, and distrust, which arrive with increasing intensity. The lovers' last desperate attempt to break free from the vicious circle and find a new path ends in a shocking conclusion. ***** Just as the human mind hesitates to accept what defies rational explanation, the main character in her fragmented narrative objectively and without unnecessary embellishments recounts this period of her life, trying to understand and come to terms with it. Meeting after meeting, city after city, we follow the development of the relationship between two cosmopolitan personalities, their boundless passion, and dark obsession, evoking the iconic Bertolucci film Last Tango in Paris.