“Vladimir”, by Martín Riwnyj, is the portrait of an obsessive, passionate painter, immersed in a violent world. Beyond some imperfections, it also surprises with its remarkable outcome
The stories, the novels, and many neighbors, have strengthened the image of painters as half-crazy, obsessive, passionate guys, immersed in their world, sometimes violent, who when they are not in a creative crisis are in a great and misunderstood explosion. artistic, and live in conflict with important and intriguing people, and in bed with their models. From Juan Pablo Castelwho killed María Iribarne Hunter (in “The Tunnel” by Sabato), and even earlier, perhaps from the Greek Apellespainters have that fame.
Vladimir, The character in the film of the same name that has just been released is a painter. AND Martin Riwnyj, the director, is too. He knows the cloth. What the viewer does not know is who killed who in this story, because, in addition to a creative crisis, a possible natural daughter and a broad existential displeasure, Vladimir faces serious defamation, fuels a growing quarrel against an arrogant guy, and knows where there is a gun. He’s not the only one who knows this. But above him, at a certain height, his long-time model and lover disappears.
The man advances, muttering, rather dictating, phrases of Baudelaire and of Galeano that sound like your own in your mouth. They ask her what paths her painting takes. “The zigzagging paths of the absurd”, he answers, and they applaud him. They also applaud him when he goes to inaugurate his new work, the definitive one, the one that is not painted with a brush. Unexpected moment, crowning moment, well presented.
Short film, imperfect but captivating, surprising with the precise outcome of a good story. Interpreters, putting on unique voices and faces, Daniel Aráoz, Carlos Belloso, Marcelo Melingo, Enrique Dumont, Germán Baudino, Douglas Vinci, Diego Alonsoand them, Mariela Pizzo, María Eugenia Rigón, Mimí Ardú, Alma Bagnato, Stefania Koessl. Paintings of Silvio Acevedoand also Renata Morini, Oreste Badillo, Darío Couples. Previous films of Riwnyj, “Death plays dice”, “Bad fortune”.
“Vladimir” (Argentina, 2022); Dir.: Martín Riwnyj; Int.: Daniel Aráoz, Carlos Belloso, Marcelo Melingo, María Eugenia Rigón, Mariela Pizzo.
Source: Ambito
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