Good mix of national films (from when they were still filming)

Our cinema has, like all others, very good films, good, weirder than good, or rather intentional.Our Our cinema has, like all of them, very good films, good ones, more rare than good, or more well-intentioned than successful.but it also has, like few others, a remarkable variety of styles, themes and proposals, a multitude of performers, technicians of an indisputable levelenthusiasts who make do with little, who persist and, above all, who rescue or rework our issues, preserving what would otherwise be forgotten. That, among other things. And that is what can be seen in this week’s releases.

From a book of fantastic events Leopoldo Lugones, “The Strange Forces”, the cordobese Augusto Sinay He got the idea to do “The toad”According to old beliefs, if someone kills this animal, it resurrects itself, swells up and climbs on top of the attacker, freezing him with its cold frog belly.

Here the one who resurrects is a priest, the one who climbs on top of the unfortunate man and takes pleasure is a smiling and evil girl, and this is not the only thing that happens. Lugones wrote the story in 1897, Sinay sets its story in 1866, to place it in the times of the Paraguayan War (although here and there someone recites a few verses of the “Santos Vega” that Rafael Obligado wrote in 1885), in short, everything filmed in Traslasierra by skilled graduates of the Enerc, the film school of the Incaa. Almost all of them from Cordoba, except for the Spaniard Javier Pereira (it is a Spanish-Cordoban co-production), and almost everything is a novelty in fantastic cinema.

Frankly realistic, “Wild”a Cordoba-Mendoza-Chilean co-production of the experienced Rodrigo Guerreropresents a drama close to the fears of our times. A well-off couple suffers an assault by three thugs. Partly recovered, the man goes out with a revolver and somehow captures the least dangerous one, but does not hand him over to the police. He takes him to the basement.

The woman is an accomplice, but she also has a maternal spirit. This is not going to have a happy ending. Beatriz Spelzinithe trans-Andean Luis Gnecco (the father of Robledo Puch in “The Angel”) and Alan Fernandezthat is, very good performers, and also very good music and precise workmanship, “Wild” points towards the path of the terrible tragicomedy of the master Monicelli “A small, small bourgeois”that is to say.

“The Agronomist” by Martin Turneschooses a different tone, with a genetically modified crops advisor who does not want to show what he really thinks, but is forced to take a position. The teenage daughter is involved in an ecological movement and confronts him from a different angle, and in a way his contractors also confront him, while the people of the town where they live begin to consider a firmer position against the collateral, and sometimes fatal, damage of the so-called agrotoxins. Diego Velazquez accurately represents the character, surrounded by Valeria Lois, Susana Pampinthe young woman Angela Zapataand the immensity of the pampas.

Fully urban, however, “Under the rock and roll sun”of Monica Simoncini and Omar Neriis a documentary of rich archive material with abundant memories of many valuable people, around the memory of Jorge Pistocchithe numen of the counterculture of the 70s onwards.

Bohemian journalist, he started in the magazine “Hair”founded successively “Bite”, “The Imaginary Express” (his greatest achievement), “Zaff” and “Hot Bread”these last three in the midst of the dictatorship, he promoted artists, spread his creations, went bankrupt, relapsed, collaborated in the 90s with the workers of a textile factory until he recovered it, continued with others, already in this century he turned to radio and other informal forms of contact with the people, he died poor, betrayed and almost forgotten.

Now this documentary refreshes the memory of its generation, notifies the next ones, and points out the supposed idols who, for money, soiled whatever. Notable are the number of figures who give their testimony, the recreation of old and beloved rock styles and the editing work of Sebastian Marino.

Finally, the most joyful and unique: “Printers”of marriage Lorena Vega and Gonzalez Zapicowhich she defines as a “genuine, raw, homemade” film. Independent theater actress, Lorena Vega and his brothers (Sergioprinter and actor, Federico Alfredoaccountant) made an unexpectedly successful play in 2018 where they told with laughter the sad and cheerful things about their own family, and the love for the printing profession that their father had passed on to them.

A father as loved as he was criticized, as distant as he was present in memory. When the pandemic interrupted the work, the book was born, which expands the initial text. Zapico He recorded the birth of that book, the daily life of the family, and the new reflections and anecdotes of the brothers.

The family, the vicissitudes of the country and work over time, all of this is now told in the language of cinema and with a freshness that is maintained. As often happens, what was once bitter is remembered with smiles, which are contagious to the audience.