SATURDAYS DISORDERS (Sábados desordenados)
dir. Lucía Seles, 2022
Argentina. 97 min.
In Spanish with English subtitles

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2 – 10PM
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15 – 10PM
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 – 7:30PM
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29 – 7:30PM

“Saturdays Disorders is a non-professional tennis final linked to a not-so-famous way of the cross, apart from the fact that loneliness is undoubtedly the virgin, the mother and the most beautiful sister of all plans every day of the week.”
– Lucía Seles’ synopsis

Taking a bizarre left-turn from Smog in Your Heart’s labyrinthine romantic entanglements, Saturdays Disorders plays like an extended riff on a late scene conversation in that prior film with Lujan traveling to the town of Lujan to undertake a pilgrimage of the lesser stations of the cross. A seemingly endless Kafkaesque journey through the suburbs of Lujan ensues while the tennis complex holds a tennis competition with only two entreats, Selena Prat (Seles herself, but credited as Selena Prat) and a friend of La Tenista’s father. Injuries, misunderstandings, fairground rides, puffy jackets, on-screen poetry, barking dogs, and some oddly achieved notes of comic futility ensue.