Treading Water

Name: Treading Water
Genre: Drama, Comedy

Mexico, Canada · 2013
1h 32m
Director Analeine Cal y Mayor
Starring Douglas Smith, Zoë Kravitz, Ariadna Gil, Don McKellar
Genre Drama, Comedy

At first glance, Mica seems a perfectly normal boy. But first glances can often be deceiving... For one, Mica's house is now a museum honouring Guillermo Garibai, the legendary Mexican crooner. Mica spends most of his time there, giving guided tours to aging Garibai fans. But stranger still, Mica smells. He smells like fish. Numerous doctors, his life-long therapist and even his own parents are at a loss. No one wants to be Mica's friend. Girls won't talk to him. His life appears pointless, uneventful, doomed. That is, until Laura walks into it.

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Village Voice by Abby Garnett

Analeine Cal y Mayor's bland, faux-quirky dramedy's most distinguishing set piece is a kitschy historic house museum dedicated to an erstwhile Mexican crooner named Guillermo Garibai.

The Dissolve by Andrew Lapin

Smith and Kravitz, both tremendously likable, simply don’t have enough to do together.

Screen International by Mark Adams

A gentle charmer punctuated with a series of nicely judged performance and an increasing sense of magical realism.

Variety by Nick Schager

Emitting the unpleasant stench of over-affectation, Treading Water slaps together its particular peculiarities with such randomness, it’s as if the film were conceived from blindly throwing disparate elements at the wall.

RogerEbert.com by Sheila O'Malley

The movie doesn't quite hold together at times, and some of the darker elements (like what it feels like to be shamed and shunned at every moment of your life) are soft-pedaled. But it has a strange charm nonetheless.