Posts tagged ‘BFI’
Today at BFI “South American Renaissance”: Gigante (Trailer)
Gigante
A supermarket security guard is drawn to a cleaner he observes on his video security monitors.
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Today at BFI “South American Renaissance”: Tony Manero (Trailer)
Tony Manero
A dangerous middle-aged loner hopes to dance his way to fame in Pinochet’s Chile.
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Today at BFI “South American Renaissance”: Liverpool (Trailer)
Liverpool
A solitary sailor takes shore leave for a journey across a bleak, frozen Argentine landscape.
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Today at BFI “South American Renaissance”: Dioses (Trailer)
Dioses
Two spoilt siblings are observed with horror by their future stepmother, in a biting satire on Peruvian society’s social extremes.
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Today at BFI “South American Renaissance”: The Headless Woman (Trailer)
The Headless Woman
Lucrecia Martel’s compelling psychological thriller follows a middle-class woman in the aftermath of a car accident.
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Today at BFI “South American Renaissance”: Madeinusa (Trailer)
Madeinusa
Hugely original, exquisitely shot fable by gifted Peruvian Claudia Llosa.
20 Aug 20:40
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Today at BFI “South American Renaissance”: Lower City (Trailer)
Lower City
Sexy love-triangle drama, set amongst the hustlers, criminals and prostitutes of Brazil’s colourful port city Salvador.
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Today at BFI “South American Renaissance”: Play (Trailer)
Play
An enigmatic private nurse finds a briefcase and starts to stalk its owner around Santiago.
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Today at BFI “South American Renaissance”: Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (Trailer)
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Two intrepid travellers sell aspirin in rural Brazil in the 1940s.
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South American Cinema rises the temperatures in London
The British Film Institute in London is currently presenting the film series “South American Renaissance” showcasing some of the most representative films from the region from the past few years. The series that runs through August 31st at the BFI‘s Southbank theater is presenting Martín Rejtman‘s Los guantes mágicos (The Magic Gloves); Paz Encina‘s Hamaca paraguaya (Paraguayan Hammock); Lisandro Alonso‘s Liverpool; Lucrecia Martel‘s La mujer sin cabeza (The Headless Woman); Jose Padilha‘s Bus 174 and Pablo Stoll and Juan Pablo Rebella‘s Whisky, among other films from Argentina, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Uruguay.
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