Category Archives: Argentinean cinema
LA ANTENA Esteban Sapir
La Antena / The Aerial (2007) Direction and Screenplay: Esteban Sapir. Cast: Alejandro Urdapilleta, Rafael Ferro, Florencia Raggi, Julieta Cardinali, Valeria Bertuccelli, Ricardo Merkin Esteban Sapir’s silent, surrealist Argentinean production La Antena / The Aerial had its Canadian premiere to a very appreciative audience at the Fantasia Film Festival on July 4. From beginning to end, La Antena dazzled the eyes and stirred [...]
THE OFFICIAL STORY Clip
In Luis Puenzo’s masterful 1985 political drama La Historia oficial / The Official Story, co-written by Puenzo and Aída Bortnik, Norma Aleandro stars as a teacher who discovers an unsettling connection between her adopted daughter and Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship. Hector Alterio plays the husband with a secret. In the clip below (in Spanish, no subtitles), a family reunion becomes the stage for a series [...]
Mar del Plata Film Festival Awards 2007
2007 Mar del Plata Film Festival Awards 2007 Mar del Plata Film Festival: Mar. 8-18, 2007 Directed by Cesc Gay, Fiction tells the story of a film director who, while resting at a friend’s home in a small mountain village, meets a violin player with whom he develops a delusional relationship. Gay and Tomás Aragay penned the screenplay. In the cast: Eduard Fernández, Javier [...]
AFI FEST 06 – Friday Evening Picks
Friday evening at the AFI FEST 06: At 4:15pm, Roger Michell’s Venus, starring Peter O’Toole — who has been touted for an Oscar win — as an elderly actor (married to Vanessa Redgrave) who befriends the grandniece (Jodie Whittaker) of a fellow veteran actor (Leslie Phillips). Venus was nominated for five British Independent Film Awards: Best Actor (O’Toole), Best Supporting Performance (Redgrave, Phillips), Best Newcomer [...]