Anita
Dir. Marcos Carnevale (2009, Argentina, 104 mins.)
Screenplay by Marcos Carnevale & Marcela Guerty
Argentina, 2009
Director Marcos Carnevale made a bold choice with Anita. Rather than trying to explain a tragedy by dissecting it, Carnevale elected to explain how a tragedy feels by focusing on a character’s reaction at the expense of the tragic event itself. In the course of this film, we find out very little about the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, the event that sparks the film’s action and permeates the film’s atmosphere. However, as we follow Anita’s journey – made fraught by her Downs Syndrome – through a Buenos Aires reeling in grief, we are exposed to such bewilderment, terror, distrust, and kindness that the particulars of the bombing are irrelevant because we can feel the film’s tragedy without them.
This film’s ensemble is what makes it work. Ordinarily, having important characters...
Dir. Marcos Carnevale (2009, Argentina, 104 mins.)
Screenplay by Marcos Carnevale & Marcela Guerty
Argentina, 2009
Director Marcos Carnevale made a bold choice with Anita. Rather than trying to explain a tragedy by dissecting it, Carnevale elected to explain how a tragedy feels by focusing on a character’s reaction at the expense of the tragic event itself. In the course of this film, we find out very little about the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, the event that sparks the film’s action and permeates the film’s atmosphere. However, as we follow Anita’s journey – made fraught by her Downs Syndrome – through a Buenos Aires reeling in grief, we are exposed to such bewilderment, terror, distrust, and kindness that the particulars of the bombing are irrelevant because we can feel the film’s tragedy without them.
This film’s ensemble is what makes it work. Ordinarily, having important characters...
- 4/10/2011
- by DaveRobson
- SoundOnSight
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