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Tag Archives: Argentina
El romance del Aniceto y la Francisca (1967) Leonardo Favio, Federico Luppi, Elsa Daniel, María Vaner
Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her true love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise. Read More »
Corta (2012) Felipe Guerrero
The Corta project arises from my interest in the cane cutters who work in the southwestern region of Colombia. Read More »
Strange (2003) Santiago Loza, Julio Chávez, Valeria Bertuccelli, Raquel Albéniz
The protagonist is Axel, aged about 40, a doctor who no longer practices his craft. Read More »
The Aura (2005) Fabián Bielinsky, Ricardo Darín, Manuel Rodal, Dolores Fonzi
In Buenos Aires, the epileptic taxidermist Esteban Espinosa is a painstaking man that likes to plot the perfect heist. Read More »
The Hand in the Trap (1961) Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Elsa Daniel, Francisco Rabal, Leonardo Favio
A woman uncovers the secret of her aunt’s withdrawal from the world and arranges a confrontation with the man who jilted her. Read More »
Memories They Told Me (2012) Lúcia Murat, Clarisse Abujamra, Otávio Augusto, Eduardo Cravo
A group of friends who resisted Brazilian dictatorship face, along with their sons, the conflicts between past and present as one of theirs is passing away. Read More »
Icaros (2014) Georgina Barreiro, Mokan Rono
Icaros explores the spiritual universe of the Shipibo indigenous people who live by the Ucayali river, one of the main tributaries of the Peruvian Amazon. Read More »
Leones (2012) Jazmín López, Julia Volpato, Pablo Sigal, Macarena del Corro
Taking a nap in the middle of the woods after walking by herself, young adult Isa awakens to meet up with fellow young adult friends Arturo, Felix, Niki and Sofi Read More »
Section des disparus (1956) Pierre Chenal, Nicole Maurey, Maurice Ronet, Inda Ledesma
The love affair of an ex-convict with a showgirl, unleashes the jealousy of his lover, a wealthy and unbalanced forty. Read More »
El pendiente (1951) León Klimovsky, Graciliano Batista, María Esther Buschiazzo, Héctor Calcaño
Under the threat of blackmail, a young woman visits an ex-lover, only to discover that he’s been murdered and the blame rests upon her. Read More »
The Black Vampire (1953) Román Viñoly Barreto, Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada, Nathán Pinzón
This clever “feminist” reworking of Fritz Lang’s classic M focuses on the mothers of children stalked by a deranged pedophile. Read More »
Camino del infierno (1946) Luis Saslavsky, Daniel Tinayre, Mecha Ortiz, Pedro López Lagar, Amelia Bence
Laura Sinrok, a rich and despotic woman domains her husband Alberto, pretending to commit suicide to retain him with her. Her ending will be tragic. Read More »
Play (2005) Alicia Scherson, Viviana Herrera, Andres Ulloa, Aline Küppenheim
Play is a movie about a lonely man and a lonely woman whose paths will almost cross as they search for love in a hostile city, Santiago de Chile. Read More »
The Bitter Stems (1956) Fernando Ayala, Carlos Cores, Aída Luz, Julia Sandoval
A deep-seated inferiority complex leads a Buenos Aires newspaper reporter (Carlos Cores) into a seemingly innocent correspondence-school scheme Read More »