To that production, which was widely distributed in previous decades, today we can only look out, with droppers, in cycles such as those that take place these days.
An advance from 17 countries on eleven Argentine cities, and the expansion of the Wojciech Has cycle from Sala Lugones to the National University of Córdoba (and then to the Uruguayan cinematheque), They allow to know something of the European cinema that we are missing.
There was a time when our cinemas housed not only American films but also an almost equal figure of films in France, Italy, Sweden, Spain and its neighbors, and even the case of a Bulgarian, the exceptional “goat horn”, which in 1974 reached 4th place as the highest grossing of the year. This was recorded at that time the magazine “Heraldo del Cine”, which was the Bible of the exhibitors.
Today all that cinema arrives with droppers, thanks to the support of their respective governments. This is how the 21 ° European Film Meeting17 films from many other countries, which have begun to travel CABA (French Alliance, Friends of Fine Arts and CC Recoleta), Córdoba, San Francisco, General Pico, Santa Rosa, Neuquén, Rosario, Salta, Tucumán, Ushuaia and Vicente López, always in free functions.
To highlight, of all of them, “The Hjstoria de Souleymane” (Boris Lojkine, France), great suspense story where a Senegalese must memorize in a few days the way to ask for asylum while traveling through the streets of Paris making delivery. Hard and tender history at the same time, which is full of awards and truths.
Also, a disturbing and smiling documentary, “favor” (Ruth Beckermann, Austria, a teacher at the head of a class where immigrants are a majority), and another singular title: “And the king said which fantastic machine” (A. Danielson & M. Van Aertryck, Sweden, compilation of things that occur in front of a camera). Special paragraph for a sports epic on a event that happened in 1913, “The last race” (Tomás Hodan, Czech Republic, the generous fight of two skiers to rescue another, surprised by a snowstorm).
There are some comedies: “Athens Midnight Radio” (reindeer Haralambidis, Greece, hardships of a announcer), “Family therapy” (Sonja Prosen, Slovenia, tragicomic variant of the “Theorem” of Pasolini), “Jokes & Cigarettes” (David Trueba, evocation of a humorist of the ’60 in Barcelona) and “Gloria!” (Margherita Vicario, cheerful youth liberation fantasy in the 19th century, already seen with good success in the Italian film week).
Dramatic stories predominate, several of them denounced racist ramoras of diverse class. His titles: “The measured man” (Lars Kraume, Germany, an interracial couple at the end of the 19th century), “Lost steps” (R. Fawaz and T. Wohlfart, Belgium, six stories intersect in the prelude to a court), “Africa Star” (Adonis Floridis, Cyprus, three generations of Chipriot women affected by 1945), “Hotel Pula” (Andrej Korovljev, Croatia, a Bosnium and a Croatian try to love in full conflict of 1995), and “Je’vida” (Katja Gauriloff, Finland, a native Sami evokes, already old, the sufferings of her people).
Also “little things, great secrets” (Tim Mients, Ireland, new complaint against the nuns). “Under the volcano” (Damian Kocur, Poland, not the novel by Malcolm Lowry but the bad experience of a Ukrainian family who was on vacation in Tenerife and suddenly began the war in his country), “Vadio” (Simao Cayatte, Portugal, a boy and his young neighbor travel the Alentejo in search of their loved ones), “Three kilometers to the end of the world” Plvu, Romania, a teenager is rejected by his). Free functions, on the unique occasion.
Source: Ambito
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