In The Future Perfect, eighteen-year old Xiaobin, recently immigrated to Buenos Aires, has her whole life ahead of her. Though she is in a foreign country and under financial and cultural obligation to her parents, […]
Tag: Argentina
CAAMFest 2015: La Salada
In the post-show Q&A after a CAAMFest screening, director Juan Martin Hsu made a compelling case for the uniqueness of his film with respect to contemporary Argentinian cinema; he suggested that La Salada portrayed new […]
Tales and more Wild Tales
Like a collection of short stories, Wild Tales and Tales each present a unified narrative and point of view, despite form. The first, by Argentinian director Damián Szifron, includes six defined and unique stories, each […]
MVFF37: Ciencias Naturales by Matias Lucchesi
This stunning and spare feature-length début by Matias Lucchesi is a wonderful exploration on the nature and the drive for truth. Two females, a 12-year old student (Lila) and her natural sciences teacher, set out […]
On Absence: The Official Story (1985) and Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
Absence takes on significant poignancy and force in these two films, from Argentina and Chile respectively, which deal with the South American desaparecidos from the 1970s. The Official Story, which won the Oscar for Best […]
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