Las Mantenidas Sin Sueños (film)

2005 film by Martín De Salvo & Vera Fogwill

24 September 2005 (2005-09-24) (Silver Spring, Maryland)
26 April 2007 (2007-04-26) (Argentina)

Running time

97 minutes; 94 minutes (Brazil)CountryArgentinaLanguageSpanish

Kept and Dreamless (Spanish: Las Mantenidas Sin Sueños, lit. 'The Kept Without Dreams') is a 2005 Argentinian drama film directed by Vera Fogwill and Martín De Salvo. Starring Fogwill and Lucía Snieg, the film focuses on the struggles of Eugenia, a 10-year-old precocious child, and the bond with her cocaine-addicted, unemployed mother Florencia, as she tries to find a job for her when they discover Florencia is pregnant. The film also stars Mirta Busnelli, Mía Maestro, Edda Díaz, Elsa Berenguer^[1] and Gastón Pauls. Shown at the American Film Institute's Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland, on September 24, 2005, the film explores mother-daughter relationships in a reminiscent way of the work of Spanish director Pedro Sanchez.^{[according to whom?]}