Country: Argentina
Year: 2008
Duration: 252'
Three stories involve three anonymus characters X, H and Z. X
gets accidentally involved in an assassination. Z, a small-town
bureaucrat, becomes obsessed with another man, whose life becomes
an increasingly problematic riddle. H gets involved instead in a vaguely
and Jules Verne-style scientific challenge that takes place in a sort
of gentlemen’s club deep in the Argentinean countryside and leads him
in an unexpected odyssey down a river that run through lonely plains.
“Two passions are at the basis of this film: the pleasure of traveling
and the joy of storytelling. An English word, which cannot be translated
into Spanish, is the spirit that animated the making of this film:
wanderlust, the craving for wandering, the greediness for movement
and drift. This was our only objective: to show others and to show
ourselves that adventure and risk are still possible in cinema; that
a film can be made on the road and that it can be composed of that
infinite labyrinth of roads.”
Biography
film director
Mariano Llinás
Mariano Llinás (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1975) received a Bachelor’s Degree from the Universidad del Cine, where he now teaches screenwriting. After making many short films, in 2002 he made his first feature film, Balnearios, that was screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. In 2004 he wrote, directed and edited the medium-length La más bella niña, followed in 2006 by El humor (pequeña enciclopedia ilustrada), which was co-directed with Ignacio Masllorens. With his production company El Pampero Cine, he produced El amor (primera parte), which was directed by Mariano Donoso (2004) and which won the Silver Apple at the Latin American Cinema Festival of New York, and Opus by Alejandro Fadel (2005), which he co-wrote with Llinás and which was screened at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema.
FILMOGRAFIA
Derecho viejo (cm, 1998), Balnearios (2002), La más bella niña (mm, 2004), El humor (pequeña enciclopedia ilustrada) (coregia/codirector Ignacio Masllorens, 2006), Historias
extraordinarias (2008).
Mariano Llinás
(Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1975), screenwriter and director, received a Bachelor’s Degree from the Universidad del cine. After making many short films, in 2002 he made his first feature film, Balnearios, that was screened at Rotterdam. In 2004 he directed the medium-length La más bella niña, followed in 2006 by El humor (pequeña enciclopedia ilustrada), which was co-directed with Ignacio Masllorens. With his production company El Pampero Cine, together with Laura Citarella, Alejo Moguillansky and Agustín Mendilaharzu, he produced all his works. Among them Historias Extraordinarias, which won Best Screenplay at the Argentinean Academy Awards and was selected at the Torino Film Festival. In 2018 he completed the monumental project La flor (2018), more than fourteen hours long, with which he won the Hubert Bals Audience Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival, participated in competition at Bafici and Locarno and in the Onde section of Torino Film Festival. In 2022 his film Corsini interpreta a Blomberg y Maciel was selected in doc competition at the Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Derecho viejo (cm, 1998), Balnearios (2002), La más bella niña (mm, 2004), El humor (pequeña enciclopedia ilustrada) (coregia/codirector Ignacio Masllorens, 2006), Historias Extraordinarias (2008), La flor (2018), Corsini interpreta a Blomberg y Maciel (doc, 2022), Clorindo Testa (doc, 2022).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay Mariano Llinás
fotografia/cinematography Agustín Mendilaharzu
montaggio/film editing Alejo Moguillansky, Agustín Rolandelli
scenografia/production design Laura Caligiuri
costumi/costume design Sofía Stamatio
musica/music Gabriel Chwojnik
suono/sound Rodrigo Sánchez Mariño, Nicolás Torchinsky
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Mariano Llinás (X), Walter Jakob (Z), Agustín Mendilaharzu (H)
produttore/producer Laura Citarella
produzione/production El Pampero Cine, Turner
vendita all’estero/world sales Turner
fotografia/cinematography Agustín Mendilaharzu
montaggio/film editing Alejo Moguillansky, Agustín Rolandelli
scenografia/production design Laura Caligiuri
costumi/costume design Sofía Stamatio
musica/music Gabriel Chwojnik
suono/sound Rodrigo Sánchez Mariño, Nicolás Torchinsky
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Mariano Llinás (X), Walter Jakob (Z), Agustín Mendilaharzu (H)
produttore/producer Laura Citarella
produzione/production El Pampero Cine, Turner
vendita all’estero/world sales Turner