| Treading Water | |
| Director: | Analeine Cal y Mayor |
| Producer: | Niv Fichman Stacy Perskie |
| Editing: | Óscar Figueroa |
| Studio: | Rhombus Media Redrum Mecanismo Films Telefilm Canada |
| Distributor: | The Orchard Alliance Films |
| Runtime: | 86 minutes 92 minutes |
| Country: | Canada Mexico |
| Language: | English |
Treading Water (also titled The Boy Who Smells Like Fish)[1] 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.[1]
The film premiered at the Miami International Film Festival in March 2013.
The film has a 40 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 10 reviews.[2]
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."[3]
Sheila O'Malley of RogerEbert.com awarded the film two and a half stars.[4]
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."[5]