WHY: Having never seen the 2009 Oscar - winning
Argentinian film on which its based, it's difficult to judge how well writer / director Billy Ray's English - language remake fares in comparison.
It's based on
an Argentinian film (that went on to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.)
«The Desert Bride,» a Chilean -
Argentinian film written and directed by Cecilia Atan and Varelia Pivato, belongs to the same de facto genre as Lelio's film, but it's a slighter effort both in terms of length (78 minutes) and dramatic heft and complexity.
This re-make of
the Argentinian film, NINE QUEENS, has been re-imagined by writer / director Gregory Jacobs as a quirky daylight noir with a plot that spins on a dime as its twists and turns on its way to proving that it's... Read More»
Moverman's script, based on
the Argentinian film Rompecabezas by Natalia Smirnoff, is graceful with the details and its characters.
Directed by Marc Turtletaub from a script by Oren Moverman (based on
an Argentinian film by Natalia Smirnoff), Puzzle comes to select theaters beginning July 13.
There was potential for this film to be melodramatic and overacted but I think, and this is typical of a lot of
Argentinian films I've seen, the films are believably acted and they have a grit to their visual style that is more realistic.
Not exact matches
During the Falklands War, the fiercely anti-British
Argentinian populace were flocking to the current James Bond
film in Buenos Aires.
He is currently
filming the new season of «De Zurda» (a show about sports, politics and culture) together with
Argentinian TV star Victor Hugo Morales.
The
film also brings home the irony that it took a foreigner (Guevara was
Argentinian) to help free Cuba from Batista's rule.
Born in Miami, raised in Argentina and then London, the 19 - year - old daughter of a Spanish - English mother and a Scottish -
Argentinian father is at home nowhere and everywhere — at least anywhere there is a
film set.
The
film's trailer hints that
film will be a dark satire, lush period
film and a complex character study of Zama's paranoia - fueled descent, all mixed up into one, which is what is to be expected of the
Argentinian director who has perfected walking a tightrope in terms of tone and genre in her not - always - easy to categorize body of work.
French -
Argentinian Gaspar Noé has chosen to follow up his «psychedelic melodrama» Enter the Void with a graphic examination of relationships driven by lust and jealousy, and while it is a warmer
film than his previous efforts, Love is a far cry from feel - good and offers its own set of challenges.
Out of the competition, the international highlights were El Clan (The Clan, Pablo Trapero), an effective if derivative
Argentinian political drama / gangster
film heavily influenced by Scorsese's Goodfellas; L'avenir (Things to Come, Mia Hansen - Løve), a fine if rather low - key drama helped enormously by Isabelle Huppert's lead performance; and, best of all, Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine, a truly disturbing mixture of fiction and documentary concerning the attempt to make a movie about the tragic suicide of Florida journalist Christine Chubbuck, who shot herself on live television back in 1974.
And last, but certainly not least, respected
Argentinian auteur Lucrecia Martel will bring some veteran prestige with her latest
film, «Zama.»
Nobody's Watching Guillermo Pfening was awarded Best Actor in an International Narrative Feature
Film «for a performance of extraordinary vulnerability and commitment that anchored the
film» as a gay
Argentinian telenovela actor trying to find personal and professional fulfillment at home and abroad.
The gay gaze, The Official Story and
Argentinian cinema, Richard Corliss on Out of Africa and 1985
films, Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Michael Apted's 28 Up, Stephen Frears's My Beautiful Laundrette, non-actors in Hollywood, James Foley interview, Ry Cooder
Viggo Mortensen teams up with
Argentinian visionary Lisandro Alonso to deliver one of the most singularly compelling
films of the year.
The new protégés — a Swiss architect, a writer from Brazil, a Peruvian musician, a dancer from South Africa, an
Argentinian / Spanish theatre artist, a
film - maker from India and a Vietnamese visual artist — are being mentored by some of the most acclaimed figures in the contemporary arts worldwide: British architect Sir David Chipperfield, Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin, Mexican
film director Alfonso Cuarón, poet and novelist Mia Couto, from Mozambique, American composer Philip Glass, Canadian theatre director Robert Lepage and American performance and video artist Joan Jonas.
These are open during ABMB week, along with an additional new show of the zany, surreal absurdist
films and installations of
Argentinian born, New York - based Mika Rottenberg whose obsessions swing from the mechanics and production processes of global capitalism to visceral body parts.
Leandro Erlich draws inspiration from his literary
Argentinian forebear, Jorge Luis Borges, but references to the world of
film also appear frequently in his work.
The Delfina Foundation is presenting
films by Turkish artist Asli Çavuşoğlu at its still - in - the - works expanded space while The Serpentine is showing off its new Sackler Gallery with a site - specific work by
Argentinian artist Adrian Villar.
A recent
film commission by
Argentinian artist Eduardo Basualdo (selected by Fundación PROA in Buenos Aires, Argentina) titled Eyelids (2014), documents an art installation in Austria of -LSB-...]
Beginning December 7, they'll present
Argentinian artist Mika Rottenberg's
film and sculpture, which often critique late - stage capitalism.
Though it is technically a 2009
film, I would suggest The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos), an
Argentinian movie that won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language
Film.