TASKOVSKI FILMS
EL TRAM FINAL
By Oscar PÉREZ
TASKOVSKI FILMS - as SALES
Documentary - Completed 2014
Life inside a community paralysed by the recession and immersed in its own
Grande Bouffe, in a place where the land is gradually disappearing, swallowed
up by the sea.
Oscar PÉREZ
Oscar PÉREZ , Mia DE RIBOT
Jordi AMBRÒS
The Final Stretch is the story of a community paralysed by unemployment and immersed in its own Grande Bouffe in a place, on the delta of the Ebro river where the land is disappearing each year, swallowed up by the sea.
A group of well-built rural workers construct, with their own hands, the enclosure where family and friends gather every summer during the annual town fiesta mayor to celebrate without limits the most abundant feasts of the season.
Autumn is harvest time but also the time of storms. Marcela and Cinta, two sisters who own a small restaurant and the land along the coastline, prepare themselves to undergo the onslaught of the sea which eats away at their land year after year.
During the winter full-moon nights, the hunters on the delta go out with their guns ready to claim their link in the food chain. Paradoxically, the shorter and less successful the hunt, the more generous and prolonged the meals that accompany them.
A new summer is on the horizon and the recession continues to wreak havoc on the area. Manolo lost his job over two years ago. His physical activity has been reduced to a token minimum but his enormous appetite remains intact. Currently he weighs around 140 kilos.
A journey along the final stretch of the river, an area submerged in an overall crisis –economic, social and environmental–, the reflection of a society abandoned to excesses and gradually devouring itself.