The second is the pairing of the two leading actresses.

The first is the daring use of an off-screen narrative throughout the film a dialogue between Amanda and David that, far from over-explaining things, acts as an anchor and guide for the audience to lose themselves in what is going on before them, as strange as it may seem. There are two key elements that make this film work so well. Luckily, we are in expert hands when it comes to material of this kind: the overall result rises up into tightly-woven plot in which social criticism, family drama and supernatural terror join forces to create a tale so hypnotic that you cannot take your eyes off it. One false move, one wrong step, could cause everything to blow up and cause a disaster. Carola is also a mother, but her relationship with her son David is tainted by a cloudy halo, which prevents the perfect love supposed to exist between them from being there.Īll the elements that Llosa presents to us on screen are about as delicate as dynamite. One of the villagers is Carola, a women for whom “small village, large hell” is like a motto. This is an invisible reality that tortures Amanda, a young lady holidaying in a remote corner of Argentina with her daughter Nina. The “distance” referred to in the Spanish title refers to the safety distance between a mother and her child, beyond which she may not be able to save them from danger.

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