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Monobloc
Monobloc

Perla has a daily appointment at the hospital to clean her blood and delay the arrival of her death. She works at an amusement park that?s always empty and from which she?s fired by her friend and boss. Perla shares a dark, humid apartment with her daughter Nena, who feels boundless love towards her mother and works as a prostitute in their shared bed and space. On the other side of the wall, in an identical yet bright and airy apartment, lives their constant companion, Madrina, who devotes her days to bursting into the next door flat with joy and alcohol, sometimes succeeding for short periods in making all three forget their destinies. One day, Madrina pretends to have won a free trip to Brazil, which she has in fact bought, and takes off. The emptiness she leaves makes life unbearable for mother and daughter.

Luis Ortega
Buenos Aires, 1980. Studied Philosophy and Cinema. In 2001 he made his first feature film, Caja negra, presented the following year in the Made in Spanish section of San Sebastian Festival. In early 2003, the organisers of the Mar del Plata Festival commissioned him to make the Opening Short Film for the event. Shortly afterwards, he made his first incursions into advertising cinema, just before he started shooting Monobloc. He is currently writing the screenplay for his next movie, Recuerdos desde mi muerte.

PROGRAMME
DAY
TIME
CINEMA  
20
20:00
Príncipe 3 Original language with English subtitles
21
17:30
Warner 10 Original language with English subtitles
22
19:30
Warner 3 Original language with English subtitles Last screening.
 

 



DIRECTOR
Luis Ortega
SCREENPLAY
Carolina Fal, Luis Ortega
PRODUCTION
Villa Vicio SRL Araoz 2891 Capital Federal 1425 Argentina Tel 54 11 4807 1159 Fax 54 11 4806 7268 villavicio@uolsinectis.com.ar
COPRODUCTION
INCAA / Hubert Bals Fund
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jorge Pastorino
EDITION
César Custodio
MUSIC
Leandro Chiappe
CAST
Graciela Borges, Rita Cortese, Carolina Fal, Evangelina Salazar
SALES
Wide Management Enterprise 42 bis, rue de Lourmel 75015 Paris Tel 33 1 53 95 04 64 Fax 33 1 53 95 04 65 wide@widemanagement.com Latinamerikan / In Latin America / En América Latina Primer Plano Film Group Riobamba 477 1025 Buenos Aires Tel 54 11 4375 050
RUNNING TIME
83 m.
COUNTRY
Argentina