Perhaps never better used the phrase he says It’s true, even if you don’t believe it. like a genius Bill Evansconsidered by many to be the most influential pianist in jazz history, he was persuaded to play in a small inland Argentine town, in 1979… as part of the 1979 Miss Winter election in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, yes seems implausible.
But it’s not.
Evans wasn’t enjoying himself at the time: he was going to die within a year, from health complications of all kinds. After the suicides of his wife and brother – which the film reflects in the conversations that the Bill Evans who embodies a Diego Gentile incredibly similar after characterization, keeps up with the dead- if he fell into addiction, everything would be worse, uphill.
For young people, what happened to Evans in San Nicolás de los Arroyos is like Taylor Swift being invited home today, treated to empanadas, whiskey and to watch a sporting event on television.
Evans, when he had to wait for the piano to be tuned on which he was to play with his trio in San Nicolás, gladly ended up at a boy’s house to eat empanadas made by his grandmother Olga, who spoke Spanish to an Evans who did not understand anything, but already used to watching black and white television in Argentina. And yet and all, he saw the fight in which boxer Víctor Galíndez took the world title away from Mike Rossman.
Whisky, drugs and jazz
Evans drinks like a sponge. Grandma Olga’s carefully stored whiskey bottle will be left to be reused as a bedside table. And he can both watch Andrea del Boca on television and get up and go to the bathroom and get a shot and get high in someone else’s house without worry.
Mariano Galperín’s film (1000 boomerangs) is mainly spoken in English, even by the Argentine businessman (Marcelo Xicart) who took him on a second tour to Argentina. Evans performed at the Opera House, Teatro San Martín, in the Círculo de Rosario and arrived in San Nicolás because the businessman, portrayed as one of those blackmailers, believed that since there was an American colony there , worked in an oil company in that country, it would have been a success.
They sold, they say, 8 tickets.
Best of Bill 79 Go through the relationships of the characters. Bill with the Argentines, the manager of him (Marina Bellatti) with the entrepreneur, or all those who get into a Turin when she had asked for another, more comfortable means of transport. There are dialogues that make you laugh, and that if they had it on paper, the interpreters reinforce it.
Perhaps Bill 79 go unnoticed on the billboard, but that would be a shame. As much as not having been able to be in that place in San Nicolás, between beauty competitors and the most exquisite jazz pianist.
Bill 79
Drama. Argentina, 2023. 79′, 16 VS. From: Mariano Galperin. With: Diego Gentile, Marina Bellati, Marcelo Xicarts. Rooms: Cinépolis Houssay, Gaumont, Atlas Patio Bullrich, Multiplex Belgrano.
Source: Clarin
