Alejo Moguillansky

  • Alejo Moguillansky – El loro y el cisne AKA The Parrott and the Swan (2013)

    Alejo Moguillansky2011-2020ArgentinaDrama
    El loro y el cisne (2013)
    El loro y el cisne (2013)

    In his new film, Alejo Moguillansky baldly and skillfully articulates the world of dance –specifically, the shooting of a documentary about a series of ballets– with the story of a break-up and a romance.

    Moguillansky’s next feature after Castro (between which he edited a film by the great Matías Piñeiro), continues the director’s surprises, wittiness, and cheerfully off-kilter filmmaking approach willing to take risks and make jokes. Dance, love, a film within a film—this one knows few boundaries.Read More »

  • Mariano Llinás & Alejo Moguillansky – Tres fábulas de Villa Ocampo (2011)

    Mariano Llinás2011-2020Alejo MoguillanskyArgentinaDocumentaryDrama
    Tres fábulas de Villa Ocampo (2011)
    Tres fábulas de Villa Ocampo (2011)

    Quote:
    A fugitive, a fetishist and a detective walk through a mansion built in the 19th century on the banks of the River Plate. Within its walls, there are resonances, portraits of illustrious or unknown people, books, souvenirs, furniture from different periods and styles. At the heart of this secret order is a woman who has been portrayed throughout her life by painters of the Belle Epoque, by neoclassical sculptors, by avant-garde photographers. To reconstruct the history of these women, each of the visitors will create a fable, in which the essential names of the 20th century culture are intertwined. Among the visitor to Victoria Ocampo’s mansion we can mention the architect Le Coubusier, the composer Igor Stravinsky, the writers Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, Waldo Frank, Albert Camus… You will also hear the whisper of two young writers cementing what will be a bond that will last for decades: Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges…Read More »

  • Luciana Acuña & Alejo Moguillansky – La Edad Media AKA The Middle Ages (2022)

    2021-2030Alejo MoguillanskyArgentinaComedyLuciana Acuña

    Filmed during the COVID-19 lockdown, the movie is an almost absurd portrait of a family’s dynamic during the pandemic, set in directors Alejo Moguillansky and Luciana Acuña’s home and starring their real-life daughter. The Middle Ages features them taking online courses, trying to work and find moments of solitude in a perpetually full house. In essence, trying to not go completely crazy. Cleo, the 8-year-old star, is the protagonist and the one who copes best with the new crisis, as the story revolves around her trying to collect money to buy a telescope by selling the house’s objects. Moguillansky and Acuña produced a story that’s both relatable and also highly poetical and philosophical, in the playful and comedic fiction/documentary hybrid style they have mastered throughout their previous films.Read More »

  • Alejo Moguillansky – Por el dinero (2019)

    2011-2020Alejo MoguillanskyArgentinaArthouseComedy

    Quote:
    “We were workers of luxury. And nobody was rich enough to pay us. We had to be at the same time the actor and the documentarist. We had to be at the same time the painter and their muse. The poet and the landscape. The rifle and its prey. The rider and the horse. Don Quixote and Cervantes at the same time.” A miserable Argentine troupe of actors, dancers, musicians, film-makers and a girl embark on a theatre tour to some country, probably in Latin America. If ever love and money were irreconcilable, Por el dinero is the story of that tragedy. Read More »

  • Alejo Moguillansky – La vendedora de fósforos AKA The Little Match Girl (2017)

    2011-2020Alejo MoguillanskyArgentinaDrama

    Andersen’s “Little Match Girl”, Bresson’s donkey, the relationship between a German guerrilla and an Argentine pianist, and Helmut Lachenmann trying to stage an opera with the orchestra of the Teatro Colón on strike. In the middle of all that, Marie and Walter try to survive with their daughter.Read More »

  • Alejo Moguillansky & Fia-Stina Sandlund – El escarabajo de oro AKA The Gold Bug (2014)

    2011-2020AdventureAlejo MoguillanskyArgentinaArthouseFia-Stina Sandlund

    Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship between low-budget films with a political message and the film industry, Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction, facts, greed, gold treasure left by the Jesuits in Argentina, the 19th century vs. the present and the search for truth and wisdom form the background for this portrait of a clash between a Swedish artist and an Argentinian director (Viennale)Read More »

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