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Milagros Mumenthaler – Abrir puertas y ventanas aka Open Doors, Open Windows...
From Argentina, this film is called Abrir puertas y ventanas in Spanish, “To Open Doors and Windows.” And indeed the first time director, Milagros Mumenthaler, has a fixation on these two apertures:...
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Héctor Olivera – No habrá más penas ni olvido aka Funny Dirty Little War...
Quote: This production was shot in the province of Buenos Aires while the ruling generals were yet in power, and was released in the midst of the election period in 1983 when leftist radicals retired...
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Pablo Fendrik – El asaltante AKA The Mugger (2007)
Quote: Clocking in at only 70 minutes, Argentine director Pablo Fendrik’s unsparingly tense drama El Asaltante (AKA The Assailant, 2007) observes – in real-time – the various conflicting emotions...
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Hugo Santiago – Invasión (1969)
nvasion is the legend of a city, real or imagined, under attack by powerful enemies and defended by a handful of men who may not be heroes. They will carry on their struggle to the finish, unaware...
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Juan Taratuto – Papeles en el viento AKA Papers in the Wind (2015)
When Alejandro “Mono” dies, his brother and two closest friends, a tight-knit group since childhood, are left to figure out how to take care of his young daughter, Guadalupe. They want to give her all...
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Lisandro Alonso – Liverpool (2008)
Plot : A boat worker, Farrel (Juan Fernandez), spends his shore leave traveling from the port city to a rural community in the mountains build around an old saw mill. Ostensibly traveling to see his...
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Adrián Caetano – Crónica de una fuga aka Chronicle of an Escape (2006)
Quote: The goalkeeper of a little-known soccer team is kidnapped by a Argentinean government squad and sent to a detention center. After months of torture, he plots his escape with three other young...
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Celina Murga – Una semana solos aka A Week Alone (2007)
Quote: A handful of children are left to their own devices in this subtle drama from Argentine filmmaker Celina Murga. Maria (Magdalena Capobianco) is a girl in her early teens whose family lives in...
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Leopoldo Torre Nilsson – La chica del lunes AKA Monday’s Child (1967)
Quote: In December 1965, Telsun had announced that production of the fifth movie had been postponed once again (the original postponement having been part of the February 1965 announcement). The film,...
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Alejo Moguillansky & Fia-Stina Sandlund – El escarabajo de oro AKA The Gold...
Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship between low-budget films with a political message and...
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Pablo Trapero – Elefante blanco (2012)
Quote:The “elefante blanco” (white elephant) in Pablo Trapero’s eponymous film is the phantasmagorical structure of what was to be Latin America’s biggest hospital, construction of which was approved...
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Carlos Sorín – Historias mínimas AKA Minimal Stories (2002)
Quote:Near the provincial town of San Julian, three vibrant characters undertake seemingly mundane journeys that turn out to be subtly life changing. A lonely, fastidious traveling salesman quests for...
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Aníbal Di Salvo & José María Paolantonio – El juguete rabioso (1984)
This is an adaptation of one of the most important novels of Argentine literary modernism, Roberto Arlt’s El juguete rabioso (1926). Similar in many ways to Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young...
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Alejo Moguillansky – La vendedora de fósforos AKA The Little Match Girl (2017)
Andersen’s “Little Match Girl”, Bresson’s donkey, the relationship between a German guerrilla and an Argentine pianist, and Helmut Lachenmann trying to stage an opera with the orchestra of the Teatro...
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Juan Taratuto – La reconstrucción (2013)
Eduardo is an obsessive, efficient worker in the oil industry, disconnected from any type of emotion. He seems to have enclosed his history in one of the rooms of the house in which he lives in Rio...
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Leonardo Favio – Juan Moreira (1973)
AllMovie wrote:In this amazing and complex Argentine historical drama, much of the true story of the 19th-century assassin Juan Moreira comes to the screen. At the time of its release, this Argentine...
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Eduardo Mignogna – La fuga (2001)
Quote:Argentinean helmer Eduardo Mignogna is best known for mellers like the award-winning “Autumn Sun” (1996) and “The Southern Lighthouse” (1998), but the ambitiously-structured crowd pleaser “The...
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Maximiliano Schonfeld – Germania (2012)
In a small town of Entre Ríos, a German family is preparing to leave their farm, for reasons that will only be revealed much later. On the last day, the two teenage brothers, Brenda and Lucas, say...
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Sebastián Borensztein – Un cuento chino AKA A Chinese Tale (2011)
The film opens idyllically when a Chinese man, Jun (Ignacio Huang), takes his girlfriend on a boat trip on a picturesque lake to propose to her. This image is quickly shattered when a cow falls from...
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Ernesto Baca – Samoa (2005)
Quote:Ernesto Baca is an argentinian experimental filmmaker that uses a super 8 camera and a cutting room to create images and sounds as an artisan (like the work of Stan Brakhage, for example)....
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