Country: Argentina, Chile, Portugal
Year: 2023
Duration: 95'
Yoga teachers Gustavo and Vanesa split up. Vanesa keeps the apartment and leaves the studio they shared; Gustavo is left to find a new home and appease his meddling mother. Due to the accumulated stress, Gustavo injures his knee and replaces yoga with rehabilitation and the gym. His life becomes a world of students and ex-students – one of which injures her head. Step by step he finds his way back to the practice.
Biography
film director
Martin Rejtman
(Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1961) studied filmmaking at New York University. Before his debut feature, Rapado (1992), he wrote and directed two medium-length films: Doli vuelve a casa (1984-2004) and Sitting on a Suitcase (1986). Later he made Silvia Prieto (1999); Los guantes mágicos (2003); the documentary Copacabana (2006); Entrenamiento Elemental para Actores, co-directed with Federico León (2008); Dos disparos (2014), Shakti, a short from 2019. El Repartidor está en camino, documentary, 2023, and La Práctica, feature length film, 2023, are his last works. The latter will be presented at TFF. During the past years many festivals and institutions held retrospectives of his work. Besides being a filmmaker he is a writer as well. In 2018 he was awarded with Argentina’s main cultural prize, Premio Nacional de Cultura, for the script of the film Dos disparos.
FILMOGRAFIA
Just a movie (cm, 1982), Doli vuelve a casa (cm, 1986), Sitting on a suitcase (cm, 1987), Sistema español (1988), Rapado (1992), Silvia Prieto (1999), Los guantes mágicos (2003), Copacabana (2006), Entrenamiento elemental para actores (coregia/codirector Federico León, 2009), Dos disparos (2014), Shakti (cm, 2019), El repartidor está en camino (2020), La Práctica (2023).
Declaration
film director
“Gustavo is a man who lost his way, and for him everything goes wrong. I don’t know if there is a connection between the practice of yoga and the idea of living as a practice. It seems to me that he’s lost the practice of life. For teaching, for marriage, for home, for life... He lost the practice of all this, and also the practice of yoga.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Martín Rejtman. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Hugo Azevedo. EDITING: Federico Rotstein. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Francisca Correa. COSTUMES: Flora Caligiuri. MUSIC: Santiago Motorizado. SOUND: Guido Deniro. CAST: Esteban Bigliardi, Manuela Oyarzún, Amparo Noguera, Camila Hirane, Gabriel Cañas, Victor Montero, Giordano Rossi, Gianina Fruttero, Catalina Saavedra. PRODUCERS: Joaquim Sapinho, Victoria Marotta, Christoph Friedel, Florencia Larrea, Marta Alves, Jerónimo Quevedo, Giancarlo Nasi, Claudia Steffen, Fernando Bascuñán, Martín Rejtman. PRODUCTION: Rosa Filmes, Quijote Films, Un Puma, Pandora Film Produktion.
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