Pablo Trapero's bruising and intense Carancho (2010) remains high on my list of personal favorites, but he's also made Rolling Family (2004) and Lion's Den (2008) and, more recently, White Elephant and The Clan. Now his next film is ready to roll. Martina Gusmán (Lion's Den) and Bérénice Bejo (The Artist) will star in Trapero's La Quietud, according to Variety. It's described as "an intimate family drama turning on two sisters' reencounter and attempt at closure on a common troubled past." The cast includes Edgar Ramirez, Graciela Borges and Joaquín Furriel. It's set to begin shooting next month in Buenos Aires. Visit Variety to read more about the story behind the film as well as Trapero's intentions....
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- 10/23/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Mubi's retrospective New Argentine Cinema is playing from August 7 - September 28, 2017 in most countries around the world. La CiénagaBeginning in the mid-1990s, young directors, the majority of whom had graduated from one of many film schools in Argentina, began producing low-budget, independent films in a style that earned this group the classification of the New Independent Argentine Cinema.Part of this upsurge had to do with a small grants program that was initiated by the National Film Institute (Incaa) in the mid-1990s. These recent graduates have made short films (cortometrajes), and then have gone on to raise funds through co-production funding (Hubert Bals Fund at the Rotterdam film festival, the Visions Sud Est program from Switzerland, among others). They have relied on their own networks of like-minded young people rather than depend on the traditional film sector structure (the film union, established director’s associations, and the few...
- 9/6/2017
- MUBI
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Complete Unknown (Joshua Marston)
Armed with two top-notch leads and a compelling premise, Joshua Marston‘s third feature, Complete Unknown, spends a lot of time hinting at which direction it will go, without going anywhere at all. Tom (Michael Shannon) is living with his wife Rehema (Azita Ghanizada) in New York City, spending the majority of his days drafting agricultural policy emails in a cramped government office. It is...
Complete Unknown (Joshua Marston)
Armed with two top-notch leads and a compelling premise, Joshua Marston‘s third feature, Complete Unknown, spends a lot of time hinting at which direction it will go, without going anywhere at all. Tom (Michael Shannon) is living with his wife Rehema (Azita Ghanizada) in New York City, spending the majority of his days drafting agricultural policy emails in a cramped government office. It is...
- 10/28/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
The International Film Festival of India (Iffi) today announced that music maestro A. R. Rahman will be the Chief Guest of closing ceremony of Iffi 2015. The festival also announced Argentina‘s Oscar entry and this year’s biggest Argentinean box office hit-The Clan (El Clan) as the Closing Film of Iffi 2015. Directed by Pablo Trapero, The Clan has set new record for the best opening ever of an Argentinean movie. Directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper, Danish Girl will be the mid fest film.
With each edition, the biggest film festival of India is creating new benchmarks of content, films, and achievements. The 46th edition of the film festival will be held from November 20 to 30 in Goa. The festival will screen a variety of brilliant national and international films in different sections including World Cinema section that will present 187 films from 89 countries and Indian Panorama section, which will bring...
With each edition, the biggest film festival of India is creating new benchmarks of content, films, and achievements. The 46th edition of the film festival will be held from November 20 to 30 in Goa. The festival will screen a variety of brilliant national and international films in different sections including World Cinema section that will present 187 films from 89 countries and Indian Panorama section, which will bring...
- 11/18/2015
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Anomalisa wins Grand Jury Prize; Robert Pattinson-starrer The Childhood Of A Leader wins best debut.Scroll down for full list of winners
From Afar (Desde Alla), the first Venezuelan production to appear in Competition at the Venice Film Festival, has won the Golden Lion for Best Film.
The directorial debut of Lorenzo Vigas concerns a middle-aged man (Alfredo Castro) who pays young boys to spend time with him. One day he befriends an 18-year-old delinquent (Luis Silva), a development that affects both profoundly.
The film, sold by Celluloid Dreams, is produced by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, who co-wrote the script.
The Silver Lion for Best Director went to Argentinian film-maker Pablo Trapero for kidnap drama The Clan (El Clan).
Trapero has a good relationship with Venice, having won two prizes for his 1999 debut, Crane World, returning in 2004 with Rolling Family and sitting on the Golden Lion jury in 2012.
The Clan is based on the real-life exploits...
From Afar (Desde Alla), the first Venezuelan production to appear in Competition at the Venice Film Festival, has won the Golden Lion for Best Film.
The directorial debut of Lorenzo Vigas concerns a middle-aged man (Alfredo Castro) who pays young boys to spend time with him. One day he befriends an 18-year-old delinquent (Luis Silva), a development that affects both profoundly.
The film, sold by Celluloid Dreams, is produced by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, who co-wrote the script.
The Silver Lion for Best Director went to Argentinian film-maker Pablo Trapero for kidnap drama The Clan (El Clan).
Trapero has a good relationship with Venice, having won two prizes for his 1999 debut, Crane World, returning in 2004 with Rolling Family and sitting on the Golden Lion jury in 2012.
The Clan is based on the real-life exploits...
- 9/12/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Pablo Trapero's noirish drama centring around car crashes and insurance scams in Argentina is claustrophobic but well realised
There are 8,000 deaths and 120,000 people injured on Argentinian roads every year. The statistics are worse, I'm told, in some other countries and insurance companies are being shaken down all round the world. But apparently in deeply corrupt and unjust Argentina a sizable industry has grown up to exploit these accidents, involving the victims, relatives of the dead and maimed, lawyers, the medical profession and the police. This is the background to the latest movie by Pablo Trapero, one of the leaders in the recent resurgence of Latin American cinema.
The 40-year-old Trapero's movies have ranged socially and geographically across Argentina these past 10 years, finding pain and resilience in every corner of the nation. In the heart-warming road movie Familia rodante, an 84-year-old widow persuades a dozen members of her extended family...
There are 8,000 deaths and 120,000 people injured on Argentinian roads every year. The statistics are worse, I'm told, in some other countries and insurance companies are being shaken down all round the world. But apparently in deeply corrupt and unjust Argentina a sizable industry has grown up to exploit these accidents, involving the victims, relatives of the dead and maimed, lawyers, the medical profession and the police. This is the background to the latest movie by Pablo Trapero, one of the leaders in the recent resurgence of Latin American cinema.
The 40-year-old Trapero's movies have ranged socially and geographically across Argentina these past 10 years, finding pain and resilience in every corner of the nation. In the heart-warming road movie Familia rodante, an 84-year-old widow persuades a dozen members of her extended family...
- 3/4/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Pablo Trapero was born in San Justo, Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1971. He wrote, directed and edited the short films Mocoso Malcriado (1993) and Negocios (1995) before directing his feature debut, the award-winning Crane World (1999), a black and white 16mm film that proved to be a breaking point in Argentine cinema and that encouraged dozens of young directors into their first features. Crane World was released internationally at Venice, harvesting awards and critical acclaim at film festivals around the world.
In 2002, his second feature El Bonaerense premiered at Un Certain Regard in the Cannes Film Festival, again to critical and audience acclaim. That same year he opened his own production company Matanza Cine in Buenos Aires, from which he has produced ever since not only his own features but also those of other Argentine and Latin American filmmakers, including Lisandro Alonso, Enrique Bellande and Raúl Perrone. "Matanza", Trapero informed me when we met...
In 2002, his second feature El Bonaerense premiered at Un Certain Regard in the Cannes Film Festival, again to critical and audience acclaim. That same year he opened his own production company Matanza Cine in Buenos Aires, from which he has produced ever since not only his own features but also those of other Argentine and Latin American filmmakers, including Lisandro Alonso, Enrique Bellande and Raúl Perrone. "Matanza", Trapero informed me when we met...
- 12/26/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Acclaimed Argentinian director Pablo Trapero offers the emotional story of a jailed mother who's child is taken away – but it lacks the brilliance of his earlier work, writes Peter Bradshaw
Pablo Trapero has made a powerful movie about a pregnant woman who is convicted for murder, perhaps wrongfully, and sent to a brutal prison, where she must give birth as a prisoner and then endure the second agony of seeing her child taken away. It is a gritty and heartfelt film, but Trapero admirers may be wondering at the relative absence of the subtlety and shades of meaning that characterised films like Born and Bred, Rolling Family and El Bonaerense. There is a brilliant opening sequence in which Julia, played by Martina Gusman, blearily gets up and goes to college, in a state of semi-conscious denial about the horrifically violent events of the previous evening. But the main events of the film – the jail,...
Pablo Trapero has made a powerful movie about a pregnant woman who is convicted for murder, perhaps wrongfully, and sent to a brutal prison, where she must give birth as a prisoner and then endure the second agony of seeing her child taken away. It is a gritty and heartfelt film, but Trapero admirers may be wondering at the relative absence of the subtlety and shades of meaning that characterised films like Born and Bred, Rolling Family and El Bonaerense. There is a brilliant opening sequence in which Julia, played by Martina Gusman, blearily gets up and goes to college, in a state of semi-conscious denial about the horrifically violent events of the previous evening. But the main events of the film – the jail,...
- 3/25/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s unsurprising that this little gem got picked up at last years Sundance as it has the all-round warmth to surely reach any faction of the audience. Now a Best Picture hopeful at the Oscars, Little Miss Sunshine has matured from indie arthouse flick to widely acclaimed pic and, whilst I wouldn’t go as far as to say Oscar-worthy, it’s certainly deserving if its praise.
Little Miss Sunshine is essentially a road trip film, and one which has packed its bags of charm for the journey. We follow the dysfunctional (but stubbornly objective) Hoover family as they make the several-hundred mile trek from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to none other than the sunshine state of California, home of every aspiring young girl’s American Dream. Their goal is the Little Miss Sunshine pageant, the crown of which young Olive Hoover (Abigail Breslin) dreams of winning.
As well as establishing character and premise,...
Little Miss Sunshine is essentially a road trip film, and one which has packed its bags of charm for the journey. We follow the dysfunctional (but stubbornly objective) Hoover family as they make the several-hundred mile trek from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to none other than the sunshine state of California, home of every aspiring young girl’s American Dream. Their goal is the Little Miss Sunshine pageant, the crown of which young Olive Hoover (Abigail Breslin) dreams of winning.
As well as establishing character and premise,...
- 4/20/2009
- by Fiona
- Latemag.com/film
- Though this year’s Cannes film festival was well represented by Latin American and Spanish speaking cinema, with the exception of the brilliant film from Chile called Tony Manero, it was this contingent of films such as to Pablo Trapero's Brazilian, Argentine and Korean co-production that got lost in the shuffle. Though I missed the film and never bothered to see it in carry over fests several months later, the folks at Strand Releasing believe they got themselves a prison life drama that is compelling enough for theatrical play. Variety reports that Lion's Den (Leonera) - Argentina's pick for Oscar consideration in the foreign-language film category will be released in theaters next year. In a gripping opening sequence, a pregnant young woman, Julia, wakes in her apartment beside the bloodied bodies of two men, Ramiro and Nahuel. Ramiro is still alive, Nahuel is dead, and Julia herself is pretty beaten.
- 11/7/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Palm Pictures has acquired North American and Caribbean rights to Pablo Trapero's film Rolling Family, which has been kicking around the festival circuit for a while. The film, from the director of the festival hit Crane World, revolves around an extended Buenos Aires family's long caravan trip to the border of Argentina and Brazil. Palm, founded by music veteran Chris Blackwell, plans to release the film in early 2006, followed by a DVD release on the Palm Pictures label.
- 11/8/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Film market regular Samantha Horley will spearhead Spanish international sales and production company Lumina Films' London-based operation, the company said Monday. Horley, a former Myriad Pictures and Summit Entertainment sales agent, has been hired to be the Madrid-based company's head of sales, based in London. She takes up the reins from Marina Fuentes, who remains with the company as a consultant in Madrid, focusing on production. Lumina Films is part of the International Film Collective (IFC) group of companies that also includes production outfit Buena Onda, which recently screened Pablo Trapero's Familia Rodante in Toronto.
- 9/28/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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