“Italpark”, about the disappeared Buenos Aires amusement park. The dramas are “Something Old, Something New, Something Used” and “Reflected”. The comedies “As If We Were Just Friends” and “Camp with Mom”.
Two low-power dramas, two friendly comedies and a nice documentary that awakens nostalgia, make up this week’s Argentine news.
With a quite original mix of armed scenes, family videos, real conversations and police records, “Something old, something new, something used”of Hernan Rossellitells the life of two women, mother and daughter, heads of a clandestine pool business. Doubts about money left by the father in Uruguay, a possible natural son who left something closer, and the next police raid alternate with home life, collections, payments, until reaching a risky trip crossing borders with hidden money. . It takes a while to understand the whole puzzle, and when you finally understand it it doesn’t take long. Filming in Lomas de Zamora and Almirante Brown.
“Reflected”of Juan Baldanais inspired by the novel by José Supera “Window Cleaner”. Alejo, a very unsociable boy hanging from the rope in a ten-story building, crosses paths with also very unsociable people (the boss, the security guard, the security guard, the office staff). Everyone speaks in a threatening manner, except for an unfortunate man who is taken for granted and the cleaning girl, interested in the boy. There is a perverse game of anonymous messages and a tone that improves only towards the end, when someone relaxes a little and tells his story, a night on the terrace. Just a little. Filming in the D’ Buenos Aires building, around the corner from the Picadero.
Moving on to comedies, “As if we were just friends”Chilean-Argentine co-production of Gonzalo Badilla, describes the experience of a couple who tried the “friends with benefits” thing, it went badly, and they reunited years later in Buenos Aires, for the better. The brothers Gonzalodirector, and Sebastianactor, they come gradually, very gradually, improving, from their first, embarrassing buffoonery (that’s the name of the company, Bufonada Films) to the romantic comedy that we now see, and with which we pass the time and appreciate, finally, a protagonist of Manuela Viale. Filming in Recoleta and other beautiful places in the city.
Also to pass the time, but with more relatable characters, especially for anyone with school-age children and for children with nosy mothers, “Camp with mom”of Martino Zaidelisdescribes a mother’s struggle to prevent her child from leaving with his father, and the child’s struggle to get rid of her and stop passing papers in front of the other children. This is not the only thing that happens, because there is also a shy girl, two drivers who read “The art of war”anyway. second movie Zaidelis with Oreiro after the excellent “Really crazy”and third from this director (in between is “Extortion”with Francella), can be seen on Netflix.
And we come to the documentary. The title almost says it all: ““Italpark”. That amusement park in Libertador and Callao that fascinated the children of other times, and then had its decline, a painful closure, and an absolute disappearance, now reappears in the loving memory of those who have grown up, of the old employees, and of historians and collectors like Marcelo Hanin, Néstor Larrart (a) the magician rolled and Enrique Godoyall of this nuanced with photos and filming from yesterday, soft piano music, and sad records from today. Emotion erases the defects of a few images, and increases the merits of the director, Juan Carlos Dominguez. There is a lot of love in this job. It is worth it, even for those who never were, or never experienced the trauma that the ghost train may have caused them.
Source: Ambito
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