“Dad X Dos”, a national romantic comedy that plays with the new family models

It arrives at the country’s rooms “Dad X DOS”Hernán Guerschuny’s new movie (“Nahir”, 2024; “One night of love, 2016) Starring Celeste Cid, Benjamín Vicuña and Lucas Akoskin. It’s about A comedy of love that proposes to break with what is expected of the family, but also of life. Here you have to learn and accept to lose control.

The story focuses on Santiago (Benjamín Vicuña) who dreams of forming a family with his partner, Ana (Celeste Cid). The good news is that she announces that she is pregnant. The bad, is that the son who expects is not his, but from Pancho, his ex (Lucas Akoskin). Although he is a structured and traditional man, Santiago is willing to fight his own nature for love. Even if that means having to live with Pancho because he doesn’t want to stay out of this adventure either.

With the arrival of Ana’s ex, the insecurities of Santiago appear. Do you want to steal your place? Are you intention to return to her? These two future paternal figures collide with each other, but, by force, They understand that differences can separate, but also complement.

“Dad x dos”: a family that does not follow the rules, but breaks them

“It is a film with a rather transgressive or novel speech, which invites people to expand their gaze.”reflect Benjamín Vicuña In dialogue with Scope. His character has to leave behind the traditional idea he had about the family in his head and start friends with which he touched him. Over time he will understand that it was the best. “It is a guy who has everything planned, but It turns out that life later is responsible for surprising it with a very large demand. By the way it has to deconstruct and it is difficult, but at the same time it is a beautiful metaphor of what one is willing to do for love “Vicuña adds.

Slowly, the character of the Chilean actor is released and surrendered to his reality. Here loses the one who does not enjoy. Far from the gallants he has interpreted, Vicuña gives us a shy man who only follows rulesbut that is proposed, in their time, to break them and transform them to adapt to their new reality.

“It is a story that invites us to reflect on different ways of facing paternity and human relationships,” Actor Lucas Akoskin affirms. Unlike Santiago, his character does not feel threatened by the situation, but if he wants to be part of this new family dynamic. “Not necessarily separation has to mean a break Because at the end of the day when you have children you are still a family, ”adds the actor.

A new family comedy that reaches the country’s rooms

After the premiere of “Mom’s boyfriend”, It lands in national cinemas a new family option with the intention that adults reflect and the little ones have fun seeing the greatest stumble. “I would like the movie to talk with people of my age, but also that I can work with young people, with children. The story has many layers and each one also makes a harmony with those different audiences, ”he wants Vicuña.

Comedies that play and give rise to modern paternity variants reappear on the Argentine screen. Maybe it’s a moral: You have to learn to laugh at what has not yet been completely deconstructed.

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A new family comedy that reaches the country’s rooms.

“I would like people first to dare to go and support not only this film but also national cinema. There are not so much variety of Argentine stories of this genre in cinemas, ”he reflects Lucas Akoskin. The Chilean actor coincides. Every work ends with the public. “The idea is that the viewer finishes completing what is going to happen to this new family. ‘What is the order? How are the links? What happens? ‘ But if They will be able to witness the conflict and how the characters try to solve it and how they are also transformed, ”concludes Benjamín Vicuña.

Technical file

“Dad X Dos” (2025). Address: Hernán Guerschuny. Screenplay: Mili Roque Pitt and Matías Rodríguez. Cast: Celeste Cid, Benjamín Vicuña, Lucas Akoskin, María Gracia Omegna, Julieta Poggio, Homero Pettinato, Pablo Fábregas, Eugenia Guerty. Duration: 90 minutes.