The cinephile escape is a classic of the first weekend of Feast of Mar del Plata. The peak of the public on the first Saturday and Sunday always coincides with the strongest dishes proposed by the program.
The menu is varied during these 48 hours when the cinema gives almost no respite. The offer starts very early at 9 am in the Auditorium Theater of the legendary Palazzo del Casino Centrale, and closes after midnight, around two in the morning, in the emblematic hall of the Cinema Ambassador, half a block from the pedestrian San Martino.
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The main event of the festival will be the Sunday at 5pmwhen the artistic director of the festival, Pablo Conde, does his Talk with Teachers with the director John McTiernanresponsible of Predator, The Hunt for Red October, The Last Great Hero Y The Thomas Crown Affair. The director will then be in charge of presenting, at 10 pm, the film that consecrated him at the end of the 80s: Die Hard.
A couple of hours before McTiernan, that same Sunday afternoon, the German director Heinz Emigolz will discuss the current situation of European documentary cinema.
The festival dedicates a focus of three films to the director and this weekend will see The slaughterhouses of modernityin which the documentarist’s permanent obsession with architecture takes him even to the pampas of Buenos Aires to reflect on the work of Francisco Salamone.
The first decade without Leonardo Favio is recalled today, on the anniversary of his death, with the “Frame Favio” table, moderated by Bebe Kamin, which promises as many emotions as the audiovisual tribute to the unforgettable filmmaker during the opening gala, which also included part of his work sung by her niece Luciana Jury and Graciela Borges.
Three Favio classics, Nazareno Cruz and the wolf, The employee Y Giovanni Moreira They have shows in the morning, afternoon and evening respectively to celebrate their gigantic manual labor during the day.
Leonardo Favio’s musical profile will also be remembered in the afternoon at the MAR Museum with a visit to his popular son’s songbook Nico Favio, Manuel Moretti by Estelares and other artists called Por Amor a Favio.
Shortly thereafter, a concert called Symphonic honeycombwhich brings together a choir and strings of musicians from Mar del Plata with the voices of Leo García, Chino Laborde, Dolores Solá, Sofia Viola, Mariano Fernández Bussy and Jury.
tangalanga
The memory of another popular artist, but linked to comedy, will take place that same Saturday at the gala premiere of The Tangalanga methodfiction inspired by the conversion of the established publicist of yesteryear Julio Victorio de Rissio into the doctor of the title, also known as Raul Taruffeti and a host of other aliases.
Director Mateo Bendesky called Martín Piroyansky to turn him into Dr. Tangalanga, the king of pranks, in the film.
Tribute to Darin
Ricardo Darin will have another career accolade this afternoon, following the successful four function Argentina, 1985. The event will be held at the Auditorium, where Cecilia Roth has already been awarded during the opening gala.
The actress will also be presenting the free feature of tonight Partiesfrom Ignazio Rogersin the suggestive Teatro Colón.
the directors Melissa Liebenthal Y Laura Citarella they will look for prizes respectively in international and Latin American competitions. The director of Beauties gifts The face of Medusawhere it follows Marina’s misadventures after her face completely changed without explanation.
In Trenque Lauquénthe fourth film by Citarella, which had already won the award for best director a the poets, visits Juana Bignozzi, several stories intersect involving a disappearance, a possible supernatural being and an investigation.
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In the panorama of international cinema, stop-motion animation stands out Pinocchio from William del Toro, part of the festival’s children’s film section.
Also during this weekend it is planned the spirits of the islandthe new of Martin McDonaghresponsible of Three ads for a crime. The British director once again resorts to the black humor of in Bruges and its brilliant protagonists, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.
Bertrand Bonello close with To eat his particular trilogy on youth, after nocturnal Y Zombie child.
Madrid Jonas Trueba Account in you have to come and see it the reunification of two couples in the strange world of the post-pandemic. The Catalan Carla Simonerecognized for the summer of 1993, he won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale thanks to Alcarràsthe story of three generations of a family that thrives on peach cultivation and faces the possibility of losing their land, sold by word of mouth.
Mar del Plata offers too much cinema to consume in such a short time. But in this first weekend the festival’s first big cinema belly is guaranteed.
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Source: Clarin
