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Hit

BAFICI 2009
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Info
Year:

2008
Original Title:

Hit
País:

Uruguay 
Directores:

Claudia Abend

Adriana Loeff
Color:

Color
Format:

35 mm
Duration:

min
Cast:
  • Jaime Roos, Rubén Rada, Hugo Fattoruso, Osvaldo Fattoruso
Production:
  • GUIÓN: Claudia Abend, Adriana Loeff
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Amaral García, Pedro Luque
  • MONTAJE: Claudia Abend
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Claudia Abend, Adriana Loeff

Synopsis

Río de los pájaros (Aníbal Sampayo), Break It All (Los Shakers), Príncipe azul (Eduardo Mateo and Horacio Buscaglia), A redoblar (Rumbo) and Brindis por Pierrot (written by Jaime Roos and performed by Washington "Canario" Luna). Before those five songs, the directors say, there was Uruguay but there wasn't a country, because the popular songbook, above all the actions performed by historical figures, writers, soccer players and wrongdoers, is what founds a nation. And there they go, the directors, on a quest for those roots, trying to freeze the precise moment of the Poetic Foundation of Uruguay into a frame, something they know is impossible, and so they insist, and end up making the enormous film that is Hit, maybe the only one that found its way around such a simple and complicated thing as popular music. Abend and Loeff accomplish a choral movie (everyone that has to talk does so; and they say all they can say) in which, however, a solo voice can be sharply heard: the idea both directors have on the subject, always more curious and less erratic than that of the musicians. Finally, Hit becomes a sad document, as it reminds us that songs remain and people pass, and this, which is no other way around, hurts a lot.