Saturday, September 1, 2012

058...  El viaje (1992)....SOLANAS...No Clip

LE VOYAGE

* * * 1992 - Argentina / France * * *

AKA: El Viaje
The Journey
The Voyage

Director: Fernando E. Solanas

Starring: Walter Quiroz , Ricardo Bartis, Dominique Sanda

Political Satire Road Movie..........Rated R...

"El viaje" is a simple movie. But it has the most precise look of Argentine's reality at the beginning of the nineties.....A young Argentine boy living in a cold southern village, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his latin American essence....Martin lives in the world's southernmost city, Ushaia. His father is an anthropologist, last reported as working in Brazil. Leaving behind his mother and stepfather, the boy travels north, encountering scenes of exploitation and destruction......profoundly popular in Latin America."

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CAST

Walter Quiroz  - Martin
Ricardo Bartis  - Celador Salas, Monitor
Dominique Sanda  - Helena
Marc Berman  - Nicolas
Carlos Carella  - Tito the Hopegiver
Soledad Alfaro .... Vidala
Christina Becerra .... Violeta
Chiquinho Brandão .... Paizinho
Franklin Caicedo .... Rower
Ángela Correa .... Janaina
Liliana Flores .... Wayta
Juana Hidalgo .... Amalia Nunca
Justo Martínez .... Faustino
Kiko Mendive .... Americo Inconcluso
Francisco Nápoli .... Raul
Fito Páez .... Pablo

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LANGUAGE......FRENCH

SUBTITLES.......NONE

RUNNING TIME.....2 Hours 10 Minutes

PACKAGE: ....French Jacket

PICTURE QUALITY: ....Good.....

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"During the '60s and '70s, filmmaker Fernando E. Solanas was an influential figure in the promotion of radical, Leftist Argentine cinema. Before becoming a director, Solanas was involved with theater, music, and law. He also had experience working as a journalist and in the advertising field. In 1962, he produced and directed his first film. In 1966, Solanas teamed up with the Cine Liberacion collective and with Octavio Getino, secretly made one of the most powerful documentary films ever made, La Hora de los Hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces). Running at four hours, the film rallied in support of Perón; via archival footage, collages, poetry, interviews, and drama, the documentary attempted to incite passive audiences to take action against political injustice. Shown in secret and riddled with periodic breaks to allow audiences to actively discuss the film, La Hora de los Hornos is considered a seminal work in what became known as Third Cinema, a style of filmmaking that eschewed the values and techniques of both Hollywood and European productions in favor of making films with a revolutionary bent. Solanas and Getino made a couple more such documentaries, and then gradually began making films that were farther and farther away from the notion of Third Cinema. When Peron finally regained power in 1973, Solanas began making fiction films. He fled to Paris in 1976 when Peron was usurped during a coup and did not return to Argentina until 1983. In 1985, Solanas made Tangos — the Exile of Gardel to chronicle his experiences in Paris and earned a Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. In 1988, his film South earned him Best Director honors at Cannes."

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058...  El viaje (1992)....FERNANDO SOLANAS Film LE VOYAGE

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