A beautifully intimate film by Romina Paula on MUBI.
Romina Paula debut feature, Again Once Again (De nuevo otra vez), is now showing on MUBI, as an exclusive global online premiere. This film is a tender portrait of motherhood, subtly blurring documentary with fiction.
The film opens with a diaporama of old family photos. As the photographic slideshow unfolds, Romina Paula discusses in a voice-over the state of mind she is in now that she is in the midst of motherhood. “Once caught in the hustle of life, you can’t stop to look back,” she says. Again Once Again is about that moment in adulthood when you stop, look back, and reflect.
Again Once Again tells the story of Romina, a woman in her late thirties, who has just left her boyfriend. As she clarifies later in the film, they are just on a break, not separated, or at least not yet. Romina has taken her three-year-old son Ramón with her to stay with her mother, Mónica, in Buenos Aires. Unable to tell her mother what exactly her plans are for the future, while deciding whether she should stay with Ramón’s father, she meets up with her best friend Mariana, goes out to parties with old friends, and tutors German to Pablo.
Mónica looks after Ramón so that Romina can go out with her friends and give private lessons.
