Cinéma Argentin

Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes)

By Damián Szifrón - 2014 - 122 min – ES w. FR subs With Ricardo Darín, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Darío Grandinetti, Érica Rivas... Part of the official selection at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Damián Szifrón’s film is a black comedy in six episodes, each evoking the human violence that can arise in extreme situations, once social conventions are broken. The failings of our society are presented with scathing humor. “Relatos Salvajes” enjoyed considerable success in Argentina and became one of South America’s most popular films in just a few months.

The official story (La historia oficial)

By Luis Puenzo – 1985 – 112 min – ES w. FR subs With Norma Aleandro, Héctor Altiero, Chunchuna Villafañe, Chela Ruíz...

On 24 March 1986, exactly ten years after the military coup that overthrew Isabel Perón, “La Historia Official” received the first Oscar ever awarded to an Argentine film. Luiz Puenzo’s essential film deals with tacit complicity through willful blindness and silence. A history teacher discovers the links of her businessman husband with the military dictatorship, the origin of their adopted child, the torture suffered by a friend, and finally understands her mistakes, her guilt and the reality that surrounds her. Norma Aleandro received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress in 1985.

Eva doesn't sleep (Eva no duerme)

By Pablo Aguero – 2015 – 85 min – ES w. FR subs With Gael García Bernal, Denis Lavant, Daniel Fanego, Imanol Arias, Ailín Salas...

After the bloody military coup of 1955, the Junta decides to get rid of the embalmed corpse of Evita Perón to prevent a cult of personality, just three years after her death at age thirty-three. The future of this polarizing woman’s dead body becomes a major issue – the living are obsessed with Evita. The true story of the disappearance and reappearance of Argentina’s female icon tells of an improbable, tragic journey across the Atlantic. Pablo Aguero’s gripping film has been shown at many major festivals.