Country: Argentina
Year: 2018
Duration: 813'
A film that pays tribute to the history of cinema, via six episodes inspired by the different forms of cinematic art. Each episode has a genre. The first episode could be regarded as an American B movie. The second one is a musical with a touch of mystery. The third one is a spy movie. The fourth one is difficult to describe. The fifth one is inspired by an old French film. The last one is about some captive women in the 19th century who return from the desert, from the Indians, after many years.
Biography
film director
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).
Declaration
film director
“The film does not set out to use an actress’s prior work to bring a particular emotion to a series of images. Instead, La flor aspires to construct, to constitute this experience. The experience is the very film itself. Viewers see various actresses’ careers unfolding before their eyes, as part of the same film. The idea is that one film should be a series of films, an era in the life of four people, and that cinema should be able to show this passing of time, this learning, this process. That from the different inventions and fantasies that the avatars of the project gradually contribute, one can see eventually the true face of the four women, shining brightly through the fog of fiction.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Mariano Llinás
fotografia/cinematography
Agustín Mendilaharzu
montaggio/film editing
Alejo Moguillansky, Agustín Rolandelli
scenografia/production design
Flora Caligiuri, Carolina Sosa Loyola
costumi/costume design
Rute Correia
musica/music
Gabriel Chwojnik
suono/sound
Rodrigo Sánchez Mariño
interpreti/cast
Elisa Carricajo, Pilar Gamboa, Valeria Correa, Laura Paredes
produttore/producer
Laura Citarella
produzione/production
El Pampero Cine
coproduzione/coproduction
Hubert Bals Fund, Visions Sud Est, Turner International, Universidad del Cine, Mecenazgo Cultural, Florencia Juri, Argentina Cine, Proa
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contatti/contacts
El Pampero Cine
Laura Citarella
produccion@elpamperocine.com.ar
www.elpamperocine.com.ar
Mariano Llinás
fotografia/cinematography
Agustín Mendilaharzu
montaggio/film editing
Alejo Moguillansky, Agustín Rolandelli
scenografia/production design
Flora Caligiuri, Carolina Sosa Loyola
costumi/costume design
Rute Correia
musica/music
Gabriel Chwojnik
suono/sound
Rodrigo Sánchez Mariño
interpreti/cast
Elisa Carricajo, Pilar Gamboa, Valeria Correa, Laura Paredes
produttore/producer
Laura Citarella
produzione/production
El Pampero Cine
coproduzione/coproduction
Hubert Bals Fund, Visions Sud Est, Turner International, Universidad del Cine, Mecenazgo Cultural, Florencia Juri, Argentina Cine, Proa
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contatti/contacts
El Pampero Cine
Laura Citarella
produccion@elpamperocine.com.ar
www.elpamperocine.com.ar