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Oscar: against which films competes “Argentina, 1985”

Oscar: against which films competes “Argentina, 1985”

Zurich, San Sebastián, London and Havana They were other destinations for international film appointments in which the production stomped, as a prelude to the critics’ and industry awards that choose the highlights of 2022: in this field, it received nominations at the Critics’ Choice Awards and the British Baftas, and triumphed in the Golden Globes and the Goyas.

Now he will participate in the biggest party in American entertainment for the Oscar for Best International Film, which Argentina has competed for seven other times in the last 50 years and has won twice, with “The Official Story” (1985), by Luis Puenzo, and “The secret of his eyes” (2009), by Juan Jose Campanella. And with a World Cup spirit that is repeated in the form of a statuette, he hopes to win the third.

The favourite

“No news at the front”, directed by Edward Berger and which arrives at the gala with eight other nominations, among them for Best Film, which places it as the second most nominated along with “The Spirits of the Island”.

The new version of the renowned novel of the same name written by Erich Maria Remarque -the first, from 1930, won the Oscar for Best Picture- follows Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer), a 17-year-old boy who enlists in the ranks of the German army in 1917, three years after the start of the First World War and when the conflict, which inaugurated an industrialized way of fighting and killing in history, was in full swing and nearing its end.

The other nominees

“Near”, by Belgian Lukas Dhont, who landed at the Oscars with the Special Jury Prize at the last Cannes Film Festival to his credit. Sensitive but simpler, the drama focuses on the close friendship of two teenagers and brings to the table issues such as bullying, prejudice, disciplining others and how fear can lead to unexpected and irreparable tragedies.

From Poland and directed by Jerzy Skolimowsky, “EO“, the fourth member of the category -who won the Jury Prize in Cannes-, disputes for her part a place of relevance through an appeal to humor that also draws parallels of a social nature, in this case with the movements of displaced persons and refugees , through the story of a donkey that embarks on a journey through the Old Continent, which turns into a cycle of confinements and escapes with no apparent direction or destination.

The Irish “The Quiet Girl”, by filmmaker Colm Bairead. Spoken in Gaelic and shot in rural areas of the “Emerald Isle”, the subtle coming-of-age film recounts the experiences of an introverted girl who moves from her dysfunctional home to her distant relatives’ house for the summer, where she will meet for the first time. what it is like to experience a loving and caring environment.

Source: Ambito

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