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No country in Latin America can match the production of nearly 100 films in Argentina last year, or the fierce diversity and creativity of their filmmakers--and this in a country that in 2001 faced near total collapse. Unlike the U.S., where independent film emerges as a reaction to the dominant studio system, in Argentina the fight for independent film was fought and won on the terrain of a new aesthetic. It is a cinema that seeks an alternative to the old, a cinema that often asks more questions than it answers. The range of films is simply astonishing! From superb modernist works such as Lucrecia Martel’s poetic HOLY GIRL and Carlos Sorin’s charming BOMBON EL PERRO all the way to deeply humanist works such as Maria Victoria Menis’ moving LITTLE SKY, Pablo Trapero’s tender ROLLING FAMILY, and Juan Jose Campanella’s nostalgic AVELLANEDA’S MOON. In between, there is the accomplished ROMA by veteran Adolfo Aristarain and the gripping and extraordinary film debut WHISKY ROMEO ZULU by Enrique Piñeyro.
Argentina, 2004, 145 min.
Frank Capra’s spirit lives on in this romantic comedy from the director of the hit Argentinean film SON OF THE BRIDE. The film wowed audiences at the most recent Montreal Film Festival and follows a ragtag group of lively Argentines who keep the spirit of their social club alive against the backdrop of the country’s economic collapse. AVELLANEDA’S MOON is a film about human solidarity and the …
Argentina, 2004, 96 min.
Considerably more than just a Patagonian shaggy dog story. Set in the remote landscape of southern Argentina, this life-affirming, comic road movie turns on the relationship between a 52-year-old out-of-work mechanic and his unlikely animal companion as they travel towards a promising new career in the world of dog shows. …
Argentina, 1999, 89 min.
The story of an aging and overweight one-time rock star who searches for work as a semi-skilled laborer. Employing the style of 1950s Italian neo-realism, Crane World is buoyed by the instinctive sense of optimism and perseverance that keeps the men and women of Argentina’s working class going. …
Argentina, 2004, 90 min.
One of Argentina’s most distinguished investigative TV journalists, Jorge Lanata, pursues the corrupt forces and disinterested bureaucracies responsible for the collapse of one of the richest countries in the world. In the style of Michael Moore, his journey takes us from Buenos Aires to Switzerland and, finally, Washington. …
Argentina, 2004, 106 min.
Two adolescent girls get together after choir rehearsal and extend their passionate devotions to discussions of faith, the nature of good and evil, and the difficulties in distinguishing between the two. …
Argentina, 2005, 94 min.
An intimate, sometimes humorous and surprisingly optimistic portrait of a drug-addicted mom and her precocious nine-year-old daughter who have a slightly reversed relationship. Independent, unbowed, slightly off-kilter and united against all challenges—they fight through Argentina’s economic crisis in this winning tribute to postmodern motherhood. Director Vera Fogwill scheduled to attend bot …
Argentina, 2004, 93 min.
Felix, a transient teenager in rural Argentina, finds work with the parents of a one-year-old boy. When their marriage dissolves, he absconds with the boy to the big city in hopes of creating the family he himself has never known. Amazing performances create one of the most persuasively fond adult-child relationships committed to celluloid. …
Argentina, 2004, 103 min.
Four generations of an Argentinian family hit the road in Pablo Trapero's enchanting and buoyantly funny new movie. Along the way, emotional and mechanical mishaps abound while old passions and enmities are re-ignited as they pass through the landscapes and folkways of Argentina. …
Argentina, 2004, 152 min.
Epic in scope. Quietly affecting and rewardingly intense, Aldofo Aristarain has created his most accomplished feature yet. A young journalist typing a famous novelist’s last book dredges up memories of the novelist’s mother Roma and the struggles that tore Argentina apart in the late ’60s and ’70s. Ultimately it’s a compassionate look back at a turbulent life, and an homage to the dangerous pleasu …
Argentina, 2004, 80 min.
A young gay hustler is on a dark journey through the sex-and-death-drenched streets of Buenos Aires, forced to confront his past and the consequences of his excess as his pre-dawn travels grow increasingly surreal—blurring the lines between what is real and imagined until the sun finally rises. …
Argentina, 2004, 105 min.
Beautifully shot and narrated, director Enrique Piñeyro plays himself in a docudrama that feels like fiction. Having just been made captain in an airline company that is bending safety rules, he recreates his life and the events leading up to the fatal crash of an LAPA flight in 1999. …
Argentina, 2005, 100 min.
An audacious film that dares to place its HIV+ protagonist in the S&M leather scene of Buenos Aires. In defiance of his deteriorating health, he continues to cruise the city where his encounters reveal an ambitious, gifted man forced to come to terms with his mortality. …
