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Martín Rejtman – Dos disparos AKA Two Shots Fired (2014)
SYNOPSISOne early morning, at the beginning of a very hot summer, Mariano, a 17-year-old teenager, returns home, jumps into the pool and does some laps with a stopwatch. Then he gets out and mows the...
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Lautaro Murúa – La Raulito (1975)
Quote:La Raulito is marginalized and feels that all of her actions are called into question but cannot understand why. Is it possible that she represents something that everyone fears? (“There are...
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Edgardo Cozarinsky – Ronda nocturna AKA Night Watch (2005)
Argentinean filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky’s 2005 feature Night Watch (or Ronda Nocturna) is a searing, scorching character study of Victor (Gonzalo Heredia), a young hustler dealing and pimping on the...
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Martín Rejtman – Los Guantes Mágicos AKA The Magic Gloves (2003)
Alejandro is a taxi driver about thirty- five years is suddenly in the midst of separations, violent weather changes, sudden wealth and characters who want to return to Argentina. 1.49GB | 1 h 25 min...
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Martín Rejtman – Silvia Prieto (1999)
Quote:A minimalist deadpan comedy involving drifting characters and objects, this film focuses on Silvia Prieto, a rather unexceptional young woman who on her 27th birthday resolves to make some...
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Lisandro Alonso – Liverpool (2008)
A sailor, Farrel, leaves his ship and begins a lengthy journey to wintry Tierra del Fuego’s interior, to an isolated village and family that he hasn’t seen in years. The route seems familiar to him,...
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Fernando E. Solanas – Memoria del saqueo AKA Social Genocide [+Extra] (2004)
“Memoria del saqueo” – literally, “Memory of the looting”, but it’s worth stopping here for a second because there’s an intention there that’s lost in translation. During the 2001 crisis,...
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Fernando E. Solanas – Argentina latente AKA Dormant Argentina (2007)
Part 3 of the series preceded by Memoria del saqueo & La dignidad de los nadies, and followed by La tierra sublevada. Quote:Two years ago I very favorably reviewed the Argentinian documentarian...
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Tomás Gutiérrez Alea – Cartas del parque AKA Letters from the Park (1988)
Matanzas, Cuba, 1913. Two young people who are in love communicate through letters written by penman. When the young man leaves town, to become a pilot, the girl discovers she is really in love with...
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Hugo del Carril – Más allá del olvido AKA Beyond Oblivion (1956)
Quote:Más allá del olvido (Beyond Oblivion) is one of the best films made in Argentina and the best Hugo del Carril directed. Based on the novel Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach, this melodrama...
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Enrique Juárez – Ya es tiempo de violencia AKA Now is the Time for Violence...
Quote:Produced illegally, this is a radical, anti- American agit-prop documentary, filled with amazing sequences of large-scale, violent, unreported street riots in several Argentinian cities. The...
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Octavio Getino & Fernando E. Solanas – La hora de los hornos AKA The Hour of...
Nicole Brenez for BFI wrote:Made in Argentina in 1968, The Hour of the Furnaces (La hora de los hornos) is the film that established the paradigm of revolutionary activist cinema. “For the first...
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Paula Hernández – Los sonámbulos AKA The Sleepwalkers (2019)
Quote:Tracking the tandem voyages of a mother and daughter into fraught emotional terrain, Argentinian director Paula Hernández examines the ways desire and expectation clash when familial pressures...
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Juan Pablo Di Bitonto – Magali Aka Magali (2019)
Magali, after receiving the news of her mother’s death, must go back to her village located in the Andes of northern Argentina, to look for her son, Felix. SINOPSISLuego de recibir la noticia de que...
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Alex Piperno – Lloren la locura perdida de estos campos (2019)
A girl dies in a provincial summer house and is buried by her family. By night a wild dog unearths the corpse and takes it to the woods. Under the shade of the trees, the girl wakes up and decides to...
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María Luisa Bemberg – Camila (1984)
Quote:In Buenos Aires of the 1840’s, a young Jesuit and a wealthy socialite fall in love and begin a torrid affair. They escape from the city, and, in disguise, set up house in a village, assuming...
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Leopoldo Torre Nilsson – La caída (1959)
Letterboxd wrote:A university student comes to stay with a bedridden woman and her four children. Helping out around the house, she soon grows fond of the mother and children. An attorney falls for...
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Armando Bo – El trueno entre las hojas AKA Thunder Among the Leaves (1956)
A true Argentine cult classic. The first movie starring Isabel “La Coca” Sarli, featuring the first full frontal nude of Argentine cinema. Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli would later have a long lasting...
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Melisa Liebenthal – Aqui y Alla AKA Here and There (2020)
Here and There is an essay film that studies what being at home means. The filmmaker uses photographs, maps and Google Earth to connect places around the globe; not just from her own past, but also...
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Carlos Hugo Christensen – Dieciséis años AKA Sixteen (1943)
PlotAn early CHC melodrama produced by Lumiton in 1943. Based on the British play Sixteen by Aimée & Philip Stuart. A naive teenager faces a distressing reality when her widowed mother finds love...
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