40° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES COMPETITION
CORSINI INTERPRETA A BLOMBERG Y MACIEL
by Mariano Llinás
Country: Argentina
Year: 2022
Duration: 100'
A group of people are gathered in an old house in the San Telmo neighbourhood to record again an album they know perfectly. From that scene, one can guess a hero will be revered: Ignacio Corsini, the biggest Argentine singer. But also, like fog, all those bloody years in old Buenos Aires insist on appearing. Amid that haze, inaccessible and fantastic, Rosas, the tyrant (who some, it needs saying, don’t deem a tyrant).
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
“This movie has its roots in the shared obsession for the album that, edited in 1969, gathers the federal Song book written by the poet Hector Pedro Blomberg and composed by guitar player Enrique Maciel. Registered entirely by Ignacio Corsini at the Odeón Studios, during the decade between 1929 and 1939, it constitutes the backbone of the works by the Gentleman singer, and includes the songs that made him famous. On July 9th, 2021, a group of artists resolved to recreate those songs where anonymous heroines and furtive loves travel through the wild pampa while soldiers, in the pulperías, sigh with love.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Mariano Llinás. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Agustín Mendilaharzu. FILM EDITING: Ignacio Codino. COSTUME DESIGN: Flora Caligiuri. MUSIC: Gustavo Semmartin, Julio Sleiman, Muhammad Habbibi Guerra, Pablo Dacal (singer). SOUND: Federico Esquerro. CAST: Pilar Gamboa, Santiago Gobernori, Virginia Garófalo, Constanza Feldman, Luciana Acuña, Ana Roy, Sofía Lancestremere, Abril Benitez Gonzalez, Julia Galmarini, Sofía Terán Corsini, Catalina Ward. PRODUCTION: El Pampero Cine.
CONTACT:
El Pampero Cine - Laura Citarella lauracitarella@elpamperocine.com.ar
