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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