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| Lonely and rootless, 20-year-old Felix arrives at a humble Argentine village where he starts working on a small farm owned by a couple with a year-old boy called Chango. With the hot plains as its background and almost in silence, a stressing and unspoken situation of family violence slowly takes over, growing and reaching momentum, drying everything out. But passion is born with the same strength. The helplessness of a marginal character like Felix finds in Chango an outlet, an obsession, a main goal for his life. In present-day Argentina, which has “orphaned” its humblest inhabitants, leaving them in a situation of extreme destitution, this film, based on a real life story, makes us reflect on maternal and paternal roles and family love, highlighting the links of solidarity which remain unbroken. |
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| María Victoria Menis |
| Born in Buenos Aires, she studied at the National Film Institute’s Experimental Centre. Having made a number of shorts, in 1989 she wrote and directed her first feature film, Los espíritus patrióticos (The Patriotic Spirits), winner of the Condor de Plata for best Opera Prima, going on to direct Arregui, la noticia del día (The News of the Day) in 2001. She was also screenwriter and director of several TV series and plays, for which she has garnered a number of awards. El cielito was born from the projects presented last year at Films in Progress 4. |
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| 22 |
09:30 |
Principe, 7 |
Only press and accreditation-holders. Priority Press.
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16:00 |
Kursaal, 1 |
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24:00 |
Astoria, 1 |
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12:00 |
Principe, 7 |
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12:00 |
Principe, 9 |
Last screening.
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| DIRECTOR |
| María Victoria Menis |
| SCREENPLAY |
| María Victoria Menis, Alejandro Fernández Murray |
| PRODUCTION |
| Héctor Menis Todo Cine, S. A. José E. Uriburu 1439-6º B CP 1114 Buenos Aires Tel/Fax 54 11 4806 290 |
| COPRODUCTION |
| Sophie Dulac Productions Av. Marceau, 30 75008 Paris Tel 33 1 44 43 46 00 Fax 33 1 47 23 08 02 sdpro |
| PHOTOGRAPHY |
| Marcelo Iaccarino |
| EDITION |
| Alejandro Brodersohn |
| MUSIC |
| Diego Rolón, Jaime Dávalos |
| CAST |
| Leonardo Ramírez, Darío Levy, Mónica Lairana, Rodrigo Silva |
| RUNNING TIME |
| 93 m. |
| YEAR |
| 2004 |
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