Because Argentina, 1985, with Ricardo Darín, can win a prize in Venice

After the screening in the Sala Grande on Saturday 3 September, and in prime time, given the response from the public and the specialized media, it is not unreasonable to think that on Saturday 10 the name of Argentina, 1985from Santiago Miterwhat a star Ricardo Darin Y Pietro Lanzaniin one of the eight prizes awarded by the Jury.

Obviously the most important is the Golden Lion for best film, an achievement that no Argentinian has achieved so far. Pablo Trapero was the best director in 2015 for The clanOscar Martínez won the Volpi Cup as best male performer for the distinguished citizen a year later.

And you have to go back to 1985, when Pino Solanas won the Special Jury Prize for Tangos, Gardel’s exile to find a place among the Lions (Gerardo Gandini won the Osella d’Oro for best music for Cloudalso by Solanas, in 1998).

Well, the prizes we mentioned are 8. From the Golden Lion below, the Grand Prix, the Silver Lion for directing, the Volpi Cups for the best actress and protagonist, the screenplay, the Special of the Jury and the Marcello Mastroianni for the best young performer

To the chauvinistic question of Will you be able to win Argentina’s first Golden Lion? you can answer with a hopeful yes. But both in Venice now and in Cannes in May, there do not seem to be many risky proposals in this 2022. And both on the Côte d’Azur and here, facing the Adriatic Sea, everything depends on the Jury, whose members change from year to year.

Darín, on everyone’s lips

Darín’s performance is praised by everyone, including the international media, as we published yesterday. And if you want to recognize or highlight the film, there are the aforementioned awards: the Golden Lion, the Special Jury, the Dry Jury, the direction and the screenplay. In all these cases, it would fall favorably on Santiago Miter, since he produced, directed the film and wrote the screenplay with Mariano Llinás.

What I like to call the meter of applause – the number of minutes a film is fired after its screening at the Gala in the Great Hall – is often used by many international media, such as Varietyto place a film.

There is an example. Four days ago she titled “Tar by Cate Blanchett wins a 6-minute standing ovation in Venice, generating an immediate Oscar-worthy emotion “.

Argentina, 1985 He had a 9-minute ovation, the entire duration of the credits, something that no one else in this edition has succeeded so far. El Chino Darín, as we walked towards the Hotel Excelsior after the screening, laughed at me: “Next time, if we come to Venice, we will do longer credits”.

A clarification must be made: in Venice even the largest bodrio receives applause. That’s how Italians are, it’s like thanking them for presenting the film, even if they didn’t like it.

no whistles

And something has changed with the press, because in the projections before the Gala, if something dissatisfied, it was whistled ugly. Loud. And now, so far, there has been no Boouuuuuh!

At the Lido, a local magazine tells the magazine pop After nearly half of the Golden Lion competition had screened, Santiago Miter’s film was the second favorite. Out of 5 possible stars, it has 3.4. beats it Bones and all -3,9-, a story that combines love and cannibalism, by Luca Guadagnino from Palermo, but who shot it in the United States, with Timothée Chalamet.

Only two other productions have at least 3 stars: they are Athena -with 3.2-, the drama by Romain Gavras, set practically entirely in that Parisian community, where the violence due to the death of a preteen presumably by the police causes more deaths and repression, and the documentary All the beauty and the bloodshedabout the artist Nan Goldin and also about his fight against the Sackler family, a pharmaceutical dynasty that caused more than 400,000 deaths in an opioid epidemic.

Watch out for the documentary.

The reaction of the public was positive, not only from the accredited press and the world of cinema (understanding the producers, more than anything else) with Argentina, 1985. They laughed when they could laugh and remained in deadly silence as the Strassera prosecutor read his concluding statement.

And they clapped on more than one occasion during the screening – once, and trying to avoid a spoiler, they broke into applause, thus covering a sound / silencing effect the director wanted. But it was a clear sign of approval of what was on screen in the Great Hall.

There were, of course, the Argentines. Not only because a flag of our country could be seen in the audience. After the mentions of Sundays for young peopleor others, for example, could hear laughter from the left and right of the audience.

But it also gives an indication of the applause that crowned the end of the screening, and which remained high until the end of the film’s credits, thus setting the record we were talking about at the beginning.

To what extent Julianne Moore, president of the jury, has not been present in the Great Hall and has failed to see and hear the reaction of the public firsthand, perhaps has no implication for her judgment on the film. She saw it on one of the morning broadcasts, for the press and industry, when she saw most of the films competing in the audience, to applause, in the Great Hall.

Furthermore, as we have already said, the members of the Jury cannot have contact with the press. So I don’t want to know, don’t ask anyone what our compatriot Mariano Cohn thought about it Argentina, 1985. Silence stamp.