That was chronic.
The Water is about a teenager living in a small superstitious village in Spain. The local river is said to fall in love with women and carry them off in floods. The women ‘get water inside them’ which calls them to the river. Ana, the main character belongs to a family of women who are said to be cursed. The curse seems to amount to the fact Ana’s grandmother was a victim of domestic abuse and Ana’s mother is a single parent. In which case, half of all of us are cursed. Anyway, the film is about the ominous threat of Ana being carried away as she falls in love for the first time.
This film is the concept of this superstition and very little else. There are only two types of scenes, talking about love and the superstition, and talking about how boring it is to live in this shitty little village during this long hot summer, working crappy jobs and having nothing to do. And the whole film is just those two notes played over and over again.
I don’t know what else I can say, it was very very boring. It just felt like nothing happening for a very long time.