The Gaumont complex, in the Congreso district of Buenos Aires, continues with the screenings of national films that have won the Academy Award, or have been nominated for the most important film industry awards, which this year will be delivered on March 12 at the Dolby Theater in the city of Los Angeles.
Argentina, 1985by Santiago Mitre, is on the list of films aspiring for the award in the best international film category.
Tickets to see the films, which are always shown at 7.45pm in the Sala Leonardo Favio del Gaumont (Avenida Rivadavia 1.635), cost 200 pesos.
The cycle started yesterday Thursday The official storyby Luis Puenzo, with Hector Alterio and Norma Alejandro, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film on March 24, 1986, just a decade after the military coup that overthrew María Estela Martínez de Perón.
How the cycle continues
The cycle continues today with Camillaby María Luisa Bemberg, with Susú Pecoraro and Imanol Arias, nominated for an Oscar in 1985. It was the story of the love between the daughter of a landowner and Ladislao, a Jesuit priest, in Buenos Aires in the 1840s.
He was the surprise winner that year Dangerous gamesthe film by Richard Dembo, which represented Switzerland.
We’ll see tomorrow Saturday The son of the brideFrom Juan José Campanella, starring Ricardo Darín, Héctor Alterio and Norma Aleandro, who competed for the Oscar in 2002. Darín played a man with a complicated life, who suffers from a mild cardiac arrest which reunites him with an old childhood friend. His mother suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.
It was the fifth Argentine film to win an Oscar, and lost in 2002 with Nobody’s land (Bosnia), by Danis Tanovic.
Sunday 26 will be the turn of wild talesby Damián Szifron with Ricardo Darín, Oscar Martínez, Darío Grandinetti, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Erica Rivas, nominated for an Oscar as best foreign film in 2015.
was, until Argentina, 1985, the last candidate of our country. On that occasion the winner was Goingby the Polish Pawel Pawlikowski.
We will see on Monday 27th Truce, by Sergio Renán, with Alterio, Ana María Picchio and Luis Brandoni, the first Argentine film in competition for the Oscar, in 1975. Based on a work by Mario Benedetti, on the love of a 49-year-old widower and a young woman , whom he meets in his office. He lost, on that occasion, with Amarcordby Federico Fellini.
Finally, on Wednesday 1 March, the The secret in their eyesby Juan José Campanella, with Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino and Guillermo Francella, the last winner of the Oscar for best foreign language film, in 2010.
For his part, Argentina, 1985by Santiago Mitre, with Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani, continues on the bill at the Gaumont until Wednesday 1 March, every day at 10.30pm.
What is missing is Tangodirected by the Spaniard Carlos Saura, and who represented us before the Oscars in 1999.
Source: Clarin
