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Supernova, the new Argentine series on Amazon Prime Video, continues to show why the the boundary between cinema and television is increasingly blurred.
Although for durability and aesthetics it could easily be a moviethis comedy-drama directed by director Ana Katz (The chair game, Florianopolis dream) is intended and structured as a series. And when you finish watching the four half-hour chapters, it makes sense that this is the case.
Supernova it is an original idea of Johanna Chiefowhich were the first sketches for YouTube and later became a feminist erotic series focused on her own life.
The final version, which can now be watched in full in streaming – and on Channel 9, which premieres the second episode this Friday at 22: 30-, is a choral story about three friends: Nicolasa, June and Mimíall on the threshold of 30 years and who are going through a moment of total imbalance, both emotional and professional.
Johanna Chiefo started the idea of ”Supernova” by titling it “fat whore”.
Three friends in crisis
The main character is Nicolasa (Chiefo), an actress who parades through commercial casting of XL girls trying to beat her. Since her vocation is not enough for him to live, he makes empanadas from Tucuman and sells them to the merchants in his neighborhood.
When she is about to throw in the towel, she discovers that she has been chosen to be the face of a commercial that becomes very popular and is stigmatized as Fat Fruit: people ask her for selfies and to do the “ballet” that she performs in the commercial. .
Carolina Kopelioff, Ruggero Pasquarelli and Johanna Chiefo are the protagonists of the Argentine series Supernova.
Nicola has a strained relationship with a bohemian father (Luis Ziembrowski) who criticizes her for her fatness and wants to move in with her current partner (Ines Estevez) to the PH in which it lives.
Lives June (Italian Ruggero Pasquarelli), Nicolasa’s best friend a sexual identity crisis and is not accepted by his family. She has diabetes and joins a somewhat conspiratorial support group who believe eating papaya will help them cope better with the disease.
June is trying to sell an apartment, ventures into the world of makeup and has a relationship with her fruit seller friend. When her reality worsens, she decides to move in with Nicolasa.
Johanna Chiefo had the original idea for “Supernova”, the Argentine series on Amazon Prime Video, in which she also stars.
The third of the friends is Mimí (Carolina Kopelioff), an actress who has behaved well since she was a girl but is a little overwhelmed by fame, for his work in a strip and for the pressure of social networks. And suddenly he develops a tic in his eyes that doesn’t allow him to continue working on TV or to generate content on the networks.
Mimi is involved in a toxic relationship with Satu (Diego Cremonesi), the producer of the strip, a married man 25 years older than her and who, despite being about to become a father, continues to promise her that he will leave his “official status”. couple.
Current debates without political correctness
Luis Ziembrowski and Johanna Chiefo are father and daughter in “Supernova”.
As in many of his films (a wandering bride; The dog that doesn’t shut up), Ana Katz takes over another story with people in full emotional and / or existential crisis, anti-heroes in flesh and blood whose luck seems to change but in the end it never changes.
Hence Samuel Beckett’s phrase that appears at the beginning of each chapter: “You tried. you failed. It does not matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better “.
The life of the three friends is crossed and marked by very current debates such as fatphobia, sexual freedom, discrimination, family mandates and the superficiality of social networks.
The most precious thing is that Katz manages to put them on without having to fall into the low blows or crush the politically correct, but rather showing very real situations –there are darts in the world of television and advertising itself– and appealing to black and crazy humor.
Chiefo shines on her debut in a major production – also debuting as an executive producer – despite the pressure of being surrounded by figures and in a role that, as the original creator, has a lot to do with autobiography.
Like Gustavo Bassani in Iosi, the repentant spy (another Argentine Prime Video production), proves it there are new talents on which it seems necessary to bet to renew the sector.
Kopelioff and Pasquarelli, two former Disney boys with the longest television careers, prove they are ripe to play more committed and dramatic characters. And it’s always healthy to see great actors like Luis Ziembrowski, Inés Estevez, Marina Bellati and Nancy Duplaá accept supporting roles that they carry much more of their name in the series.
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Giovanni Tommaso Erbi
Source: Clarin
