Oceans Are The Real Continents

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Oceans Are The Real Continents

2025

1h 59m

Drama

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Three stories of migration, exile, and memory develop in the Cuban town of San Antonio De Los Baños, a place that time forgot. Alex and Edith, a young couple in their 30s, build their lives upon small gestures, reminisces, and a deep connection amidst the nation's ruins. Milagros survives selling peanut cones on the street, spending her days listening to the radio and reading old letters. Nine-year-old best friends Frank and Alain go to school and dream of emigrating to the U.S. to become Baseball players.

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Jordan Mintzer

The Hollywood Reporter

01/27/2025

Director Tommaso Santambrogio’s beautifully realized first feature, Oceans Are the Real Continents, presents a number of intriguing paradoxes: It’s both grounded in realism and highly stylized, like a social documentary shot by a first-class photographer.

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Peter Debruge

Variety

01/10/2025

If this is cinema as poetry, these are verses made to be framed and admired, rather than sung or felt.

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Carlos Aguilar

RogerEbert.com

01/10/2025

3.5/4

Filmed with marvelous attention to subtle contrasts possible in its monochromatic palette, the frames brim with a built-in timelessness.

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Lee Jutton

Film Inquiry

02/06/2025

Oceans Are the Real Continents is a beautiful, bittersweet love letter to a place and a people that remain irrevocably intertwined even in separation.

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Derek Chen

Spectrum Culture

01/16/2025

Revolving around three distinct stories, each of a different generation, Tommaso Santambrogio’s bold, gorgeous feature debut offers a faint solace in the poetry of longing and an appreciation of how we remain connected to those we love.

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Alejandro Garcia T

@RT99267061 03/07/2025

A contemplative, slow-cooker of a film, set in a country stuck, like Garcia-Marquez' Macondo, in a near century-long solitude.

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Three stories of migration, exile, and memory develop in the Cuban town of San Antonio De Los Baños, a place that time forgot. Alex and Edith, a young couple in their 30s, build their lives upon small gestures, reminisces, and a deep connection amidst the nation's ruins. Milagros survives selling peanut cones on the street, spending her days listening to the radio and reading old letters. Nine-year-old best friends Frank and Alain go to school and dream of emigrating to the U.S. to become Baseball players.

Director: Tommaso Santambrogio
Producer: Marica Stocchi, Gianluca Arcopinto
Screenwriter: Tommaso Santambrogio
Distributor: Film Movement
Production Co: Cacha Films, RAI Cinema, Ministero della Cultura (MiC), Rosamont
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 10, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 7, 2025
Runtime: 1h 59m