The Sharks
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Imagine if in Jaws, the resident
of Amity Island who took the ap-
pearance of a great white shark
most seriously wasn’t the town
sheriff but a hormonal 14-year-
old girl. The resulting film might
be something like writer/direc-
tor Lucía Garibaldi’s feature de-
but, The Sharks, which scooped
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by Eric Hillis
the Directing Award in World
Cinema at this year’s Sundance
Film Festival.
Amateur performer Romina
Bentancur is quietly assured in
her role as the movie’s awkward
anti-heroine, 14-year-old Ro-
sina, whom we first encounter
fleeing her angry father (Fabian
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