Treading Water (also titled The Boy Who Smells Like Fish) is a 2013 Mexican-Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Analeine Cal y Mayor and starring Douglas Smith and Zoë Kravitz. It is Cal y Mayor's feature directorial debut.
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Cast
Douglas Smith as Mica
Zoe Kravitz as Laura
Carrie-Anne Moss as Catherine
Ariadna Gil as Sophie
Gonzalo Vega as Guillermo Garibai
Don McKellar as Richard
Release
The film premiered at the Miami International Film Festival in March 2013.
Reception
The film has a rating of 40% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 10 reviews.
Nick Schager of Variety gave the film a negative review and wrote, "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."
Sheila O'Malley of RogerEbert.com awarded the film two and a half stars.
Mark Adams of Screen Daily gave the film a positive review, calling it "a gentle charmer punctuated with a series of nicely judged performance and an increasing sense of magical realism."