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Castro

BAFICI 2009
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Year:

2009
Original Title:

Castro
País:

Argentina 
Director:

Alejo Moguillansky
Color:

Color
Format:

Video: Digibeta
Duration:

85 min
Cast:
  • Edgardo Castro, Julia Martínez Rubio, Alberto Suárez
Production:
  • GUIÓN: Alejo Moguillansky
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Gustavo Biazzi
  • MONTAJE: Alejo Moguillansky, Mariano Llinás
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Mariano Llinás, Laura Citarella

Synopsis

Why do they all look for Castro? We don’t know, but after him go Samuel, Willie, Rebeca Thompson, and at a certain distance, Acuña. What’s certain is that Castro left the Capital with Celia, and just flees, and thinks that if he can get a job, that would damage love. Castro (the character) has something Arlt-like, even if he’s faster with getaways than with inventions, and only thinks of how to survive without being drowned. Castro (the film) is a film about the speed of cinema, and that’s why it turns chases and lockups into two of its joyful constants, and keeps leaving clues (it’s the same thing whether they’re false or true) that force the audience to adopt that speed taking the risk of being left way behind; as though that four-car chase or the hilarious street following where the pursuers signal each other opening their umbrellas, in a brilliant, over the top choreography, two scenes that would be enough to show a filmmaker’s talent. With perfectly synchronized slapstick comedy timing, with a use of language and narrative secret typical of film noir or crime melodrama, in his first solo outing, Alejo Moguillansky offers a completely new film.