Joya means jewelry in Spanish, but it also means something like "great" or "cool" if you hear it near the Rio de la Plata, where this Uruguayan movie comes from. And it's really a jewel. The plot is simple: a couple of artists on their thirty-something -she's an actress, he's a lazy writer- must leave their apartment in Montevideo because they can't pay the rent. They move for the winter to Piriapolis, an old fashion beach town, and they try to work on a theater play. It's a movie about couples, about love and real life, about art in Latin America. Sometimes it's hilarious; other times it's really sad. The dialogs are great. It reminded me some works by Cassavettes, focusing in the intimacy of that couple that could be, at some point, any couple.
