That is why it is interesting what you can say about the trends of current Argentine independent cinema, starting with why it is that “Punto Rojo” dares to have bold gore images, which made it “Only suitable for people over 16”. “It is that in the current situation the ammeter does not move much,” he explains to this newspaper “Before we worried about softening the images both in gore and in explicit violence or even eroticism to obtain a rating for 13 years, because 16 was a drama, since it took away a lot of public. But as the sequels to ‘The Game of Fear’ and especially ‘The Purge’ became more popular, we realized that the public expected those images in a national production. And on the other hand, as things are, there is no reason not to film a police or horror film with all the force that one imagined when writing the script.
Some of the most “authorial” scenes of his last film show a character that seems to be permanently revived. “That was a decision that cost me a bit, but that was in my original script and that came from my taste for Hollywood action movies in which a Stallone or a Bruce Willis can shoot each other with hundreds of enemies but they never hit them, or at least they never kill them. So while ‘Punto Rojo’ is a crime thriller, it’s also a black comedy. I left daring to exaggerate those failed deaths. I had doubts, but when I saw the film with an audience at the Mar del Plata Festival I noticed that the spectators were celebrating and laughing a lot”.
Something that stands out in “Punto Rojo” is the precision of the montage, which is one of the decisive points to keep a story tense with only three characters, and almost always with one of them locked in the trunk of a car: “I I always edit my films but in association with a sorter who was not available this time, so I decided to do it alone. I started very well, but at one point I got carried away by the obsession of the director / typesetter”.
“Punto Rojo” started out as a short film called “Pinball” that was well received on a Canadian independent short film platform. “The original idea was to keep a good part of the short integrated into the film, but that became less practical as we were designing the shoot, and ended up being discarded when the cast changed. One thing is a short and another is a feature film”. Despite the crisis, Loreti does not stop filming. Right now he is finishing what he says will be his first “really horror” film, titled “Maria” and co-directed with Gabriel Grieco. “Sofia Gala and Malena Sánchez act, and her name is María as a tribute to the robot from “Metropolis” by Fritz Lang. It is a plot that takes place on the set of a porn production company, where murders, supernatural terror and even science fiction are mixed.”
Source: Ambito
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