He Bafici always shines the first weekend that varied menu that characterizes the festival.
Many of the most anticipated movies are stacked between Saturday and Sunday. The vertigo of the work around the Obelisk, the area where the festival is concentrated for the second consecutive year, finds a breather on Saturday and Sunday with the plus of Avenida Corrientes in its pedestrian version.
The new of Cristiano Petzold, a fire, maybe it’s the main course of a busy weekend. The German locks four young men in a house in a forest on the shores of the Baltic Sea until a fire starts to burn around the house, as well as their emotions. Petzold’s flame will be lit on Saturday at 8.40pm and Sunday at 3.30pm at the Lavalle Monumentale.
First, on Friday evening (at 7.30 pm in the Leonardo Favio room at the Gaumont), Sara Facio: I’ve been thereby Cinthia Rajschmir, who, as she had already done with Manuel Antín, approaches the photographer, one of the great personalities of our time, with admiration and respect.
Saturday at noon at the Gaumont say hello When the waves are gonethe latest by Lav Diaz.
This time the Filipino director, a festival ticket holder, has only three hours to tell the story of a policeman suffering from psoriasis due to the stress caused by his imminent reunion with his mentor, whom he has imprisoned for almost thirty years for corruption.
Julio Bressane seems to agree with the saying with which he warns against cheating A long journey on the yellow bus. The representative of Brazilian cinema Marginal retraces his long career together with his editor Rodrigo Lima in this documentary lasting more than seven hours which can be seen on Saturday at 2pm and Sunday, half an hour earlier, at the Lorca cinema.
Mariano Llinás had won the Bafici with fourteen hours of The flower Five years ago. This time the director participates in the Argentine competition and on Sunday at 7 pm at the Gaumont he presents the more moderate one Clorind Headwhere he decides to focus on the famous architect, albeit in his facet of poet, on his father Julio Llinás who wrote a book on the subject and, above all, on himself.
Alejo Moguillansky, his partner at El Pampero Cine, presents on Sunday at 7pm at the Arthaus a walkerwhich the filmmaker who has won the national competition several times defines on screen as “a film about a scene that has been left over from another film”.
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The most awaited Argentine film will have its international premiere on Saturday at 21:40 at the Gaumont, when Dolores Fonzi stand in front of and behind the camera blonde. Even Fonzi’s debut feature features her as the protagonist, a mother who behaves as if she were a friend of her son.
It was previously screened at 2.45pm at the Alliance Française Dolldreamy debut by Guido Segal starring Carla Crespo and Susana Pampín in the role of a young psychoanalyst and her mentor in an eccentric journey in which, by dint of substances and dolls, he confronts her with her desires.
The big news of this Bafici is the drive-in cinema located in the former Sports City of Boca Juniors. Saturday at 18:00 Juan Baldana will present his eloquent documentary Be Eternal: Champions of America and Sunday will be Children’s Day thanks to the 3pm screening. my neighbor totoroby Hayao Miyazaki, and at 6pm The Knights of the Zodiac: The Legend of the Sanctuaryby Keiichi Sato. After the screening, the Power Up Orchestra will perform anime classics.
The kids will also be able to enjoy Saturday at 3.30pm at Lavalle Monumentale The Pharaoh, the savage and the princess, of the always present in Baficito Michel Ocelot. Outdoor enthusiasts can wait until dark at 7:30pm to see the double bill at Parque Centenario laugh deadgreat British horror comedy Edgar Wright, e Taste the blood of Draculaby Peter Sasdy, with Christopher Lee sporting the most famous fangs in history.
And for music lovers, Bafici offers a white background with Tequila Sex, drugs and rock & roll, a documentary narrated by Cecilia Roth about the gang of octogenarian teenagers with whom Argentines Alejo Stivel and Ariel Rot raided Spain. The screening of the film on Saturday at 11pm at the Astros Theater includes a show by Alejo to review the group’s classics.
The closing of the festival weekend takes place on Sunday evening at the Arthaus with the screening of the controversial and unconventional your pussywhere the extravagant Gonzalo García Pelayo focuses on the nudity of a couple.
The first Saturday and Sunday the characteristic variety of Bafici is concentrated with an inclusive offer for children and adults, with cinemas here and there, outdoors or closed in a room and even in the car. An ideal weekend to enjoy a slice of mozzarella from your favorite pizzeria in via Corrientes in the middle of the cinema.
Source: Clarin
