San Sebastián.- Once again, Latin American cinema is back in a privileged place in the Festival of San Sebastian, which is claimed as the natural gateway to the European market. And in this issue 63, the Argentina “Eva does not sleep” safe will talk.
Just landed in Toronto, Pablo Agüero compete for the Golden Shell with this personal film he calls “dream” about the birth of one of myths of modern Argentina: Evita. Gael García Bernal, Denis Lavant and Imanol Arias starring Odyssey who lived the embalmed corpse of a woman who raised and continues to raise passions.
In the premier also see “apostate”, the director of ” The useful life “Federico Veiroj. The Uruguayan wheel in Spain his third film about a young man who longs to get rid of a faith inherited which is not recognized, although the Church does not put it easy. Starring newcomer Alvaro Ogalla, has the winner of the last Goya for best actress, Barbara Lennie.
In addition, Ricardo Darin returns to competition with the Spanish-Argentina co-production “Truman,” in which he plays to a cancer patient and repeated orders Cesc Gay (“a gun in each hand”). And with the spine of not being able to shoot in Cuba, the Spanish Agusti Villaronga adapted in Dominican Republic in “The King of Havana,” the novel by Pedro Juan Gutierrez.
Beyond the Official Selection, the great showcase of films made across the Atlantic will be in Horizontes Latinos, which this year opens “The club”. The Chilean Pablo Larrain won the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlinale this hard and uncompromising story about the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church in dealing with sexual abuse within it.
Interestingly, Larraín the Horizontes Award will take place with compatriot Patricio Guzman, who was also awarded the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at Berlin Festival for the documentary “button pearl”, which returns to settle accounts with the past of their country. And German harvest festival also get Mexican “600 miles” (Gabriel Ripstein) and Maya drama “Ixcanul” (Jayro Bustamante), Alfred Bauer prize for new film perspectives.
Just landed Venice, where he was crowned with the Golden Lion, the Venezuelan Lorenzo beams will try to add a new award with “From Beyond”, a striking portrait of the current Caracas which was attended by the Mexican writer Guillermo Arriaga. And from Mexico it stands “Chronic” the drama of a nurse working with terminally ill patients by Michel Franco was awarded the Best Screenplay at Cannes.
In the French competition, the Argentine Santiago Mitre won with the grand prize of the Critics’ Week by “Paulina,” about a brilliant lawyer who leaves everything to devote to teaching the most disadvantaged, while the Colombian César Augusto Acevedo Golden House was the family drama ” land and shadow. “
To complete the range of Colombian Horizons” The embrace of the snake “(Ciro Guerra), Mexican” The chosen “(David Pablos) and” I promise anarchy “( Julio Hernández Cordón), the Cuban drama “The work of the century” (Carlos M. Quintela), the promising Brazilian film “To minha beloved morta” (Aly Muritiba) and Peruvian “Magallanes”, winner of the last Films in Progress Award.
In addition, Zabaltegi, a section dedicated to the most innovative proposals, will be the Argentine documentary “327 books” about the diaries winner Ricardo Piglia Romulo Gallegos. That will also showcase Tanbutti Marcia, that “Allende, my grandfather Allende” reflects how his family has dealt with the loss of ousted Chilean president over three generations.
The third film in contention, “Jia Zhang-Ke, um homem Fenyang” not leave you indifferent: in it, the cinesta acclaimed Brazilian Walter Salles (“The Motorcycle Diaries”) takes a personal portrait of the Chinese filmmaker who in 2013 won the award for best screenplay Cannes for “A Touch of Sin”. And dedicated to beginners. New Directors Award by the Argentina compete “Paula” and Chile’s “The Sexual Life of the fish”
Finally, among the Festivals’ will be the last major Argentine box office success of “The Clan” by Pablo Trapero that has just been honored as best director in Venice. In the section that raises appetite, the Culinary Zinema, traditional Peruvian cuisine to make your mouth water more than one in “The Dream of Sonia” by Diego Sarmiento Pagan.
At the moment, who has is assured award is Marco Berger. Argentine icon “queer” films, has been awarded the third Sebastiane Latino sexual diversity “Butterflies”, a complicated story where even a first love could be incestuous. And in San Sebastian which kicks off this morning, the film shows that Latin American variety of proposals is hard to beat.
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