Mar del Plata – The arrival of director Juan Antonio Bayona to Mar del Plata was expected yesterday, to present “The Snow Society”, a new version of the remembered episode of the Uruguayan rugby players lost in the middle of the Andrés mountain range in 1972, and reappeared (some) when everyone already thought they were dead. After the show, Netflix has prepared a gala dinner. Bayona is the only international star of this International Festival. Minister candidate Sergio Masa was at the inauguration, surrounded by people from the cinema with songs and banners, who occupied half of the Auditorium. Invited to the stage, he stated that he will encourage greater financing of Argentine cinema, and hinted that to do so he will promote a new tax on audiovisual platforms, a project that he has been asking for for years. The minister then chaired a dinner with businessmen, politicians, officials and artists at the Hermitage.
This year the catalog and even the daily programming booklet are purely digital, so as not to waste paper. The damage of this saving will be seen over time, since digital material lasts less, and is already seen now in the bad mood of viewers when they try to search for titles and schedules. As for the material on display, there are no major complaints, but rather a fairly good level. Some titles are soon to be released, such as “Elena knows”, also from Netflix, with a solid performance by Mercedes Morán (on Thursday the 16th) and the Mexican “I’m not going to ask them to believe me”, with the participation of Juan Minujín (on the 22nd, world premiere on platforms) and “The Castle”, a pleasant portrait of the lady who inherited her employer’s properties and now must maintain them (December 7). Only for March, however, is “The Wind That Devastates,” by Paula Hernández, the story of a fanatical evangelical pastor and his daughter tired of hustle and bustle and sermons, based on a novel by Selva Almada.
Separate line for “Love and cinema”, by Victoria Carreras, about the career of her father, the remembered Enrique Carreras, prolific director of popular films, theater and musical shows, and her mother, Mercedes Carreras, actress, muse, advisor and support of her husband. A film made with warmth, affection and pride, caressing the emotional memory of the audience, “Love and Cinema” earned the strongest and loudest applause so far in the meeting. And another for “GPNK- The path of gas”, by Gianfranco Quattrini, a documentary about the construction of the gas pipeline over the years and the desert. Made with a creative spirit, rather than an institutional one, it was exhibited in a single function, in a small room, but it can be assumed that it will have greater dissemination when the Festival ends.
Source: Ambito
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