SYNOPSIS

It is a significant day for 80 year old Antonio. After an absence of many years, his estranged son is coming to visit. All must be perfect. There will be a toast with a very special champagne; an embrace; warm words that may finally bridge the gap between them… But before, Antonio must wait. Bedridden, he looks out his window at the Patagonian landscape and sees light and life, the past and the present, while sensing the future. He decides to secretly leave the house, unseen by his faithful caretakers, to take what might be a last walk in his fields, breathing the air, treading the earth, inhaling the scent of the land that had been his life. What could otherwise seem like insignificant memories or moments in one's life, take a special, beautiful meaning and weight in this poetic, humanistic film.

Distinguished Argentine filmmaker Carlos Sorín ('Bombón, El Perro', 'Historias Minimas') once again trains his camera on the small stories written by life, on the humanity behind human beings. By casting the great Uruguayan writer and scriptwriter Antonio Larreta in the lead role, Sorin establishes a link between fiction and reality that makes the protagonist's fears, hopes and wishes even more palpable.

FESTIVAL HISTORY

• Winner, FIPRESCI Prize, Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain
• Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival, Canada
• Official Selection, Rome Cinema Film Festival, Italy
• Official Selection, Cairo International Film Festival, Egyptn
• Official Selection, Gotenborg International Film Festival, Sweden
• Nominated, Golden Spike, Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain

DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY

At the age of six, Carlos Sorín got a hand-crank projector with comic strip tapes made of paper. In those times television was not very common, and instantly, from the moment when he switched off the lights, closed the windows and projected the images onto a sheet hung on the wall, he was sure that cinema was going to be his future. When he was 8 years old, he got another projector capable of showing 16mm movies, and one year later, he received a motorized projector. At the age of 14 he worked with the first camera, a 16mm rope-Kodak. Later on, as the years went by, the motorized Bolex, the Arriflex, Aatons and finally the 4K digital cameras arrived. For him, there was no doubt that technology was the way of entrance into cinema.

When he left the film university Escuela de Cine de la Universidad de La Plata he became camera assistant, and only a little later director of photography. After ten years in this job, he successfully became a director of commercials—a job he exercised for too many years.

In 1986, he made his first theatrical motion picture, La Pelicula del Rey (A King and his Movie), which was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and the Goya Award of the Spanish Film Academy for the Best Foreign Film, among many other awards. Encouraged by these accolades, he rapidly launched himself into the making of his second movie, Eternas Sonrisas de New Jersey (Eversmile New Jersey), a film that became an experience of failure. After this failure, he began directing commercials again.

In 2002, when he was ready to settle an open personal account with cinema, he directed and produced Historias Mínimas (Intimate Stories). The film won an innumerable series of international awards (among others the Special Prize of the Jury at San Sebastian 2002 and 8 Silver Condors) and opened the door again to other opportunities. At that point in time, he finally gave up his career making commercials in order to concentrate on directing dry cinema. In 2004, he directed Bombon, El Perro (Bombon, the Dog) (FIPRESCI award in San Sebastian 2004) – a worldwide theatrical success – and in 2006 El Camino de San Diego (The Road to San Diego). In 2008 he directed THE WINDOW and Ringo, a boxing movie (his other passion.)

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SHOWTIME

SAT. 11/14 at 7:00PM
Tillie Lewis Theatre

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CAST AND CREW

Production Company: Guacamole Films and Wanda Vision
Screenwriter: Carlos Sorín, Pedro Maizal
Editor: Mohamed Rajid
Principal Cast: Antonio Larreta, Maria del Carmen Giménez, Emilse Roldan, Roberto Rovira, Alberto Ledesma

SOURCES

Print Source:
Film Movement
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