Argentina

  • Inés María Barrionuevo – Atlántida (2014)

    Inés María Barrionuevo2011-2020ArgentinaDrama
    Atlántida (2014)
    Atlántida (2014)

    In the summer of 1987 in a town in Córdoba, two teenage sisters, Elena and Lucia, are alone at home. The youngest is in a cast and annoyed with pleasure by her older sister, who thinks of how to get out of that town, to study and to live in a different way, beyond the small gossip of the village club, the bar of the town, the little clubs and the pool and who squeezed with whom. There are also the boys who live and work in the field, a young doctor, but much older than Elena, a connection between Lucia and a friend of her sister, some conflicts elsewhere. Sexual awakenings, annoyances, identities, searches, encounters, urgencies.Read More »

  • Constanza Feldman & Agustín Mendilaharzu – Clementina (2022)

    Constanza Feldman2021-2030Agustín MendilaharzuArgentinaComedy
    Clementina (2022)
    Clementina (2022)

    While many filmmakers (the majority) remained immobile during home confinement, the members of the El Pampero collective did not stop filming… Alejo Moguillansky filmed with his partner, the actress Luciana Acuña, The Middle Ages, while Agustín Mendilaharzu did the same with Constanza Feldman in Clementina…

    Clementina is Feldman’s alter-ego, who in the middle of the pandemic settles — in principle provisionally — in the apartment of her boyfriend Guillermo (Mendilaharzu) in the Chacarita neighborhood. The first few minutes are typical of this “subgenre” of COVID times: wearing masks, maintaining social distance, using hand sanitizer, disinfecting food, changing shoes as soon as you enter, earning a living by teaching online or selling homemade bread… The risk of pandemic comedy “fatigue” at this point is evident.Read More »

  • 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 »

  • Moroco Colman – Fin de Semana AKA Weekend (2016)

    2011-2020ArgentinaDramaMoroco Colman
    Fin de Semana (2016)
    Fin de Semana (2016)

    Carla arrives after years of absence to accompany Martina. Relations between them are cold; there’s something unspoken between them. Martina slips away for secret meetings with Diego, a man twice her age. The two are involved in a hardcore sex game that’s out of control. When Carla discovers the relationship she confronts Diego.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 »

  • María Silvia Esteve – Silvia (2018)

    2011-2020ArgentinaDocumentaryMaría Silvia Esteve
    Silvia (2018)
    Silvia (2018)

    A poetic family chronicle in which a diplomat’s daughter and her sisters try to come to grips with the tragic life of their mother.Read More »

  • Raúl Perrone – Favula (2014)

    Raúl Perrone2011-2020ArgentinaArthouseSilent
    Favula (2014)
    Favula (2014)

    Quote:
    “Hypnotic” is the best word to describe Favula, the latest work from director Raúl Perrone, which comes with a recommendation from none other than Apichatpong Weerasethakul – though he used the more Joe-like epithet, “bliss.” Somewhat of a secret outside of his native Argentina, Perrone has made more than 30 movies, and in recent years has reinvented his cinema, by looking back to the past, and in doing so pointing to the future. Standing apart from any other film made this year, with its magical handmade aesthetic, Favula recalls Méliès, or silent Fritz Lang, but at the same time evokes recent silent, stage-bound aesthetics like Raya Martin’s Independencia. Loosely based on an African fable, and shot employing rear-projections techniques, Favula’s simple events take place mostly in an isolated house and a nearby jungle: a marginal family’s life is interrupted by the arrival of a teenaged girl. On top of the minimalist, pulsating images, Perrone layers a maximalist soundtrack that encompasses both the sounds of the jungle and non-diegetic music (indelible contemporary songs that appeared in his last work, the cumbia punk opera P3ND3JO5). The result is a wholly unique, mythical universe of danger, passion and magic.Read More »

  • Leonardo Di Cesare – Buena vida (Delivery) aka Good Life Delivery (2004)

    Leonardo Di Cesare2001-2010ArgentinaComedyDrama
    Buena vida (Delivery) (2004)
    Buena vida (Delivery) (2004)

    This film, the first in De Cesare career, remember me on “Brutti, sporchi e cattivi” one of the greatest Scola films. It’s a simply history of two young people of a suburban place in Buenos Aires. A simply “boy meets girl” one. But the family of the girl came to town and the plot developed to a “grotesco”. The situations are growing to a intense drama and black comedy. De Cesare make the film so transparent, so simply and put his look on characters and relationships. He made it with a naturalist view, and a lot of great actor’s works. Ignacio Toselli simplify the work and “Venancio” make me remember to Nino Manfredi in Scola’s films. The script by De Cesare and Hans Garrino is simple and perfect at the same time. This film win the 19th Mar del Plata film Festival in Best film and best script.Read More »

  • Raúl Perrone – Ragazzi (2014)

    Raúl Perrone2011-2020ArgentinaArthouseExperimental

    1 – the last day in the life of Pasolini but from the look of his aggressor a ragazzi – like any other his friends – his environment – his tragedy

    2 – a group of ragazzis working with their wooden carts in the city of Cordoba but the gaze is focus on them – playing in the river and with a mysterious woman Ragazzi is a symphony in two movementsRead More »

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