The president of INCAA, Carlos Pirovano, in line with current policies against culture, was neither at the party nor will he travel to the Festival. Our country only competes in parallel sections.
With salmon bites and good champagne, among other attentions, Yesterday, the French Embassy in Argentina entertained the directors of the films that will represent us this year at the Cannes Festival, which begins next Tuesday the 14th and runs until the 25th. Some of them already have one foot on the plane. However, the one who will not go, nor did he go to the Embassy, is Carlos Luis Pirovano, the current president of the INCAA.
A sign of the times, this year no national work will compete for the Palme d’Or. Cannes looks very little towards Latin America, and only one Brazilian film entered the Official Selection, “Motel Destino”, by Karem Ainuz. The Argentines are divided into six parallel sections.
In Critics’ Week, “Simon of the Mountain”, by Federico Luis Tachella, with Lorenzo Ferro, who had already been in Cannes in 2018, as the protagonist of “The Angel”, that of Robledo Puch. In the Filmmakers’ Fortnight, “Something old, something new, something borrowed”of Hernan Rosselliand the short “Our shadow”of Agustina Sánchez Gavier. This section was called Directors’ Fortnight, but in 2022 they changed the name citing “reasons for inclusion.”
In Acid (Association Cinema Independent pour sa Diffusion), “More people die on Sundays”of Iair Said, with Rita Cortese. In Immersive Selection, “Gloomy eyes”3D virtual reality animation, Fernando Maldonado and Jorge Teresa, about the friendship of a zombie and a girl. At Cinema de la Plage, outdoors, “Transmitzvah” by Daniel Burmanwhich thus returns to Cannes, where in 2021 he was a jury for the Un Certain Regard section.
Curious detail, Burman He is the only veteran of the group, the others are almost all debutants. Happy detail, almost all of them are comedies. Bitter, surreal, but comedies. By the way, it is worth mentioning the seventh title of the Argentine platoon. Nothing less than “Rosaura at ten”the classic of Mario Sofficichosen by the Festival for its Cannes Classics section, where it has a place alongside restored copies of “Gilda”, “The Seven Samurai”, “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg”, “Mad Escape” (the second of Steven Spielberg) and “Paris, Texas”, which was first seen in the Bafici.
To keep in mind: in 1958 “Rosaura at ten” competed in the Official Section of Cannes, and its protagonist, the comedian Juan Verdaguer In his first dramatic role, he almost won the Best Actor Award. He beat him Paul Newmanby “A long, hot summer”and maybe also because it was cuter.
Source: Ambito
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