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“ Trapero’s Elefante blanco, focusing on the painstaking work of two shanty-town priests and a social worker, is a trip through urban hell. Contrary to the barrage of political harangue we are subjected to on a daily basis, Elefante blanco lays out the bare facts: a Third World country playing welfare state but in reality struggling to stay afloat.
No other aborted social project could make such a visible, powerful impact as the elefante blanco, palpable proof that not everyone is given the same possibilities to attain social mobility and think ahead to a better future.
In such a bleak social landscape, though, there’s always bound to be a group of believers and fighters. In Trapero’s fiction, it’s Catholic priests Julián (Ricardo Darín) and Gerónimo (Jéremie Renier), plus social worker Luciana (Martina Gusmán). ” - Julio Nakamurakare
No other aborted social project could make such a visible, powerful impact as the elefante blanco, palpable proof that not everyone is given the same possibilities to attain social mobility and think ahead to a better future.
In such a bleak social landscape, though, there’s always bound to be a group of believers and fighters. In Trapero’s fiction, it’s Catholic priests Julián (Ricardo Darín) and Gerónimo (Jéremie Renier), plus social worker Luciana (Martina Gusmán). ” - Julio Nakamurakare
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“ Abrir puertas y ventanas — a ludicrous action standing for the girls’ need to open up and then slam shut slivers into their frightened souls — has a perplexing fixation with the way humans react to the loss of people and things that make up a safe environment. It’s a story about the painful process of transition from the self-centred universe of adolescence to abrupt adulthood, a turning-point in which life-making decisions must be made in spite of the phenomenon known as inertia in physics 101. ” - Julio Nakamurakare
3.
Mi primera boda (2011)
In "My First Wedding" ("Mi primera boda"), Jewish-born Adrián and Catholic-born Leonora have finally reached their wedding day... (102 mins.)
Director: Ariel Winograd
“ If, for a split second, Mi primera boda looks like a prologue to a Jewish comedy of manners involving social ritual etiquette, leave prejudice aside and brace yourself for the ride of your life: it’s a mixed marriage, the bride, Leo (Natalia Oreiro) coming from a Catholic background. True, hers is the often found and often denied non-professing, unorthodox type of Catholic family, but when it comes to weddings, is there a mother, is there a bride, who dreams not of walking down the aisle of a Roman Catholic Church and uttering those words (“Yes, I do”) before an unexpectant, lacrimose crowd of next of kin and inlaws? The Wedding March, let’s agree on this, seems to have been infused with tear gas effect on listeners, and everyone in attendance seems to relish the thought that yes, marriage is a forever thing. ” - Julio Nakamurakare
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Un cuento chino (2011)
In Buenos Aires, the bitter and methodic Roberto is a lonely man and the owner of a hardware store.... (93 mins.)
Director: Sebastián Borensztein
“ Without going into further detail and to be on the safe side, all I can say is that Un cuento chino is, indeed, full of things Chinese, even if action takes place in a traditional Buenos Aires barrio, against a conventional background and equally familiar setting and run-of-the-mill characters.
Rightly billed as a dramedy, Un cuento chino, like all efficient narratives, negotiates the terms of mutual understanding between filmmaker and audience by laying out the bare facts in a simple manner: by introducing the lead character, Roberto (Ricardo Darín), for who he is: your average guy from the block, around 50, owner of a hardware store, going grumpily about business in general and about life in particular. ” - Julio Nakamurakare
Rightly billed as a dramedy, Un cuento chino, like all efficient narratives, negotiates the terms of mutual understanding between filmmaker and audience by laying out the bare facts in a simple manner: by introducing the lead character, Roberto (Ricardo Darín), for who he is: your average guy from the block, around 50, owner of a hardware store, going grumpily about business in general and about life in particular. ” - Julio Nakamurakare
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El secreto de sus ojos (2009)
A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later. (129 mins.)
Director: Juan José Campanella
“ Argentine director Juan José Campanella (El mismo amor, la misma lluvia / Same Love, Same Rain; El hijo de la novia / Son of the Bride; Luna de Avellaneda / Moon of Avellaneda) has been the subject (not to say victim) of stigmatization by the local intelligentsia, particularly some brand of film criticism which held Campanella's production in contempt for its "weepy" content, favouring instead more "artsy" and "socially committed" fare. "C'était un cas d'amour fou ou de haine irrépressible." You know what I mean.
But let's spell it out in full: El secreto de sus ojos is a great movie. It's proof that a movie can be both a commercial hit and an intelligent product at the same time. ” - Julio Nakamurakare
But let's spell it out in full: El secreto de sus ojos is a great movie. It's proof that a movie can be both a commercial hit and an intelligent product at the same time. ” - Julio Nakamurakare
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El estudiante (2011)
Roque starts University in Buenos Aires but he is not particularly interested in attending classes or working towards a degree...(110 mins.)
Director: Santiago Mitre
“ At first glance, El estudiante, scripted by director Santiago Mitre himself, is structured around the same good old narrative pattern: the rise and fall, the loss of innocence, the inexorable road to corruption of somebody who learns the hard way that there’s no room in this world for utopias or just plain ideology. El estudiante is all of this and none of it altogether. ” - Julio Nakamurakare
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Medianeras (2011)
Martín and Mariana are slightly damaged people who live in buildings just opposite one another. While they often don't notice each other, separation might be the very thing that brings them together. (95 mins.)
Director: Gustavo Taretto
“ From script to acting, from direction to editing, everything speaks perfection in Gustavo Taretto's urban alienation comedy Medianeras (Sidewalls). Martín and Mariana are young, beautiful, professionally successful and ready for a commitment, but all they seem to stumble upon is weirdos. In the Internet isolation era, they realize that walls (cybernetic and real ones) must be brought down for a real human encounter. Delicious. ” - Julio Nakamurakare
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El hombre de al lado (2009)
A small incident over two neighbors common wall sparks a conflict which affects the intimacy of the view over the chimney; the protagonist sparks a conflict and with paranoiac obsession destroys everyday life. (110 mins.)
Director: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat
“ Another hit involving walls and holes. El hombre de al lado, like all good products, sets for itself the highest standards of excellence in every regard - script, acting, music, camera work, editing - and then sticks unfailingly to this creed, to this manifesto of sorts.
El hombre de al lado plays out as a simple comedy of opposites - Leonardo, a successful, sophisticated industrial designer; and his new neighbour Víctor, uneducated and vulgar, yet able to achieve almost any objective he sets out for himself. That ‘anything,' in this case, is drilling a hole in the adjacent wall between his house and Leonardo’s, who happens to live in no less than the ‘Casa Curutchet,‘ the only building erected by Le Corbusier in Argentina, the Swiss-born ultramodern architect who revolutionized 20th Century home design. ” - Julio Nakamurakare
El hombre de al lado plays out as a simple comedy of opposites - Leonardo, a successful, sophisticated industrial designer; and his new neighbour Víctor, uneducated and vulgar, yet able to achieve almost any objective he sets out for himself. That ‘anything,' in this case, is drilling a hole in the adjacent wall between his house and Leonardo’s, who happens to live in no less than the ‘Casa Curutchet,‘ the only building erected by Le Corbusier in Argentina, the Swiss-born ultramodern architect who revolutionized 20th Century home design. ” - Julio Nakamurakare
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“ Class reunions, granted, should be all about reminiscing about the good ol’days when the future was full of hope and expectations, never-ending bliss, potentially new, fruitful experiences piling one on top of the other.
Shall we add that losers most often, and rightly so, expect a food
chain and natural order reversal?
Just don't sit there watching someone's success: plot against them! ” - Julio Nakamurakare
Shall we add that losers most often, and rightly so, expect a food
chain and natural order reversal?
Just don't sit there watching someone's success: plot against them! ” - Julio Nakamurakare
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“ Trying to sum up Artico in a nutshell would be mission impossible – nothing much happens by way of plot or narrative. Rather, Artico is quietly contemplative in nature. One could, perhaps, come up with this notion of a young man in his early 30s setting foot on new territory. He is no wanderer: there is a mission in his lonely walk towards an uncertain destination.
Solitude has a bad reputation under any circumstance, but Loza’s Artico manages to convey the notion that solitude may, at times, be equated with peacefulness, with calm, with humankind’s reunion with the self, in the soothing quietude of a place called nowhere, in which the only aural stimuli are the rumour of the waves and the birds humming back home to their nests. No more is needed. ” - Julio Nakamurakare
Solitude has a bad reputation under any circumstance, but Loza’s Artico manages to convey the notion that solitude may, at times, be equated with peacefulness, with calm, with humankind’s reunion with the self, in the soothing quietude of a place called nowhere, in which the only aural stimuli are the rumour of the waves and the birds humming back home to their nests. No more is needed. ” - Julio Nakamurakare
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