Yesterday, no less than eight productions were released, of different scope and merits, among them the celebrated “Norita” and “Los Domingos Muer Más Personas”, which had been seen at several festivals.
Facing omens, defamations and threats, the Argentine cinema is still alive. Yesterday they premiered no less than eight national films. Different in budget, style, aspirations and achievements, all of them show the love and stubbornness of their authors for cinema.
Two have international inspiration and are already making noise abroad. “Norita” (Jayson McNamara and Andrea TortoneseArgentina-USA). about Nora Cortinashas a very unique merit: it is not a “militant” film, but rather the warm portrait of a woman who, having suffered what she suffered, knew how to keep her smile, her good spirits, and her body and mind active until she was 94 years old. of age. For some reason, his co-producers include Jane Fonda, Naomi Kleinthe brothers Muschietti and Gustavo Santaolallawho made the music.
For its part, “More people die on Sundays” (Iair SaidArgentina-Italy-Switzerland) is the soft and slightly ironic painting of a clumsy, insecure boy, afraid of being alone. The boyfriend left him, the uncle died, the father is in a coma with no hope of improvement. The mother understands it, and endures it (beautiful performance in a light tone of Rita Cortese). The title, quite curious, alludes to a Jewish custom relating to those who die on Friday or Saturday, a day on which funeral ceremonies are prohibited.
Then there are two premieres of good quality and commercial expectations, although without flashy names: “Time to pay” (Felipe Weinemerged from the University of Cinema), which follows the hectic life of a little tree addicted to gambling and the small thefts to cover what he loses in the game, in a spiral that gives him no rest or future, all with good camera and faces adequate, as to not buy more in Florida, and “No way out” (Who), where a girl is kidnapped by white slaves.
There are other films on the same topic (“The fly in the ashes”of Gabriela David, “The Guava”of Maximiliano Gonzálezand “Under the blue sky”delicate short Martin Salinas), but this one has two originalities: a series of scenes inserted as parallel realities for the escape attempts, and an epilogue with a warning for the public.
Three others are documentaries made from the heart and with very little money, out of pure love for the people registered: “Yellow Ode” (Lucía Paz), poetic look at the mother with Alzheimer’s and the family memories that are lost, between renewed walks on the beach, hard and tender talks and the delicate sound of a piano in the background; the marplatense “The invisible sea” (Lucas Distéfano), about the dynamic life of a blind man who surfs, another blind man who prepares to climb mountains and if possible also mountains and a girl who laughs, sings and teaches as if nothing had happened, in short, three admirable people; and “Phantom Cyclone” (Diana Cardini), following the enthusiastic creator of scenes and dolls at the Luján amusement park. Since the flood, everything is filth in the river, but he finds the good part, invents things, whistles at the birds and (delicious scene) plays with a small pretend dinosaur as if it were a puppy.
Finally, the off-the-charts, straight to the underground, “Homophobia!” (Goyo Anchou), side B of another previous one entitled “Heterophobia”. Alien to the Incaa, a declared enemy of its authorities, his is an acid comedy for connoisseurs, with split screen, misappropriations of old films, squeaky dialogues and even squeakier situations, some of them taken during a Pride March. There a pretty woman quickly seduces a “convert,” who longs for his previous state. It is not a film for everyone, but that’s how it is, in Argentine cinema there is everything. And there is still Argentine cinema.
Source: Ambito
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