Lleida, Spain — The feature directorial debut of producer Sebastián Perillo “Amateur” scooped both best feature and director at the 24th Lleida Catalonia Latin America Festival, hosted by the city known by gourmets as the Mecca of grilled snails.
Internationally sold by Switzerland-based Kafilms, “Amateur” is an erotic thriller produced by Argentina’s Rispo Films, Amada Films and Tecno Films, and world-premiered at Mar del Plata festival where it took the best original music award.
“Amateur” follows Martin (Esteban Lamothe), a solitary TV director who becomes obsessed with his neighbor and boss’ wife Isabel (Jazmín Stuart), when he finds a porno in which she appears. The jury described Perillo’s debut as “a surprising genre feature made with courage, and without prejudices.”
Best screenplay was granted to “Family Life,” co-helmed by Alicia Scherson (“Il futuro”) and Alejandro Zambra (co-writer of Cristián Jiménez’s “Bonsái”). International sales on “Family Life” are handled...
Internationally sold by Switzerland-based Kafilms, “Amateur” is an erotic thriller produced by Argentina’s Rispo Films, Amada Films and Tecno Films, and world-premiered at Mar del Plata festival where it took the best original music award.
“Amateur” follows Martin (Esteban Lamothe), a solitary TV director who becomes obsessed with his neighbor and boss’ wife Isabel (Jazmín Stuart), when he finds a porno in which she appears. The jury described Perillo’s debut as “a surprising genre feature made with courage, and without prejudices.”
Best screenplay was granted to “Family Life,” co-helmed by Alicia Scherson (“Il futuro”) and Alejandro Zambra (co-writer of Cristián Jiménez’s “Bonsái”). International sales on “Family Life” are handled...
- 4/28/2018
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
DVD Release Date: Aug. 21, 2012
Price: DVD $27.99
Studio: Strand Releasing
A close shave? Natalia Galgani and Diego Noguera star in Bonsái.
Bonsái is a 2011 Chilean romance-drama film based on the novella by noted Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra.
Julio (Diego Noguera) is a struggling young writer who has hit a wall. Unemployed and involved in a half-hearted relationship with his neighbor (Trinidad Gonzalez), things are finally starting to look up when he gets an interview with a renowned author Hugo Medina) to transcribe his latest work. Things don’t go as planned, however, and Julio doesn’t get the job. Instead of admitting the truth to his girlfriend, he pretends to be transcribing the novel when actually writing his own story. Searching for inspiration and a plot, Julio revisits a romance with a woman (Nathalia Galgani) he had eight years ago when studying literature in Valdivia.
Helmed and written by first-time feature film director Cristián Jiménez,...
Price: DVD $27.99
Studio: Strand Releasing
A close shave? Natalia Galgani and Diego Noguera star in Bonsái.
Bonsái is a 2011 Chilean romance-drama film based on the novella by noted Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra.
Julio (Diego Noguera) is a struggling young writer who has hit a wall. Unemployed and involved in a half-hearted relationship with his neighbor (Trinidad Gonzalez), things are finally starting to look up when he gets an interview with a renowned author Hugo Medina) to transcribe his latest work. Things don’t go as planned, however, and Julio doesn’t get the job. Instead of admitting the truth to his girlfriend, he pretends to be transcribing the novel when actually writing his own story. Searching for inspiration and a plot, Julio revisits a romance with a woman (Nathalia Galgani) he had eight years ago when studying literature in Valdivia.
Helmed and written by first-time feature film director Cristián Jiménez,...
- 7/23/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Based on a novel by the widely praised young Chilean author Alejandro Zambra, Bonsai is a highly literary affair about reading, writing, honesty in life and fiction, and what Susan Sontag called for in Against Interpretation, "an erotics of art". Rather clumsily constructed, it has a failed writer and Latin tutor in Santiago ashamed to tell his lover, a translator, that he's lost a job transcribing the manuscript of a distinguished, elderly, computer-illiterate novelist. Instead he writes the book himself, basing the story on a love affair he had eight years previously at university with a girl he met when both pretended to have read Proust. It's a grand, preening metafiction in which novels are both the great sexual turn-on and the ultimate test of truth and good faith. Following the example of Candide, the central character ends up turning his back on life and cultivating bonsai trees. A rather...
- 3/31/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★☆
Bonsái (2011), Chilean director and writer Cristián Jiménez's follow up to 2009's Optical Illusions realises the tale of a handsome and philosophical literary student, first love and fact vs. fiction. his latest effort still bears some of the postmodern leanings of his debut, but this precise and beautifully photographed (by cinematographer Inti Briones) adaptation of Alejandro Zambra's celebrated novella looks more wryly at the close bond between young lovers, saving face and creating alternate truths.
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Bonsái (2011), Chilean director and writer Cristián Jiménez's follow up to 2009's Optical Illusions realises the tale of a handsome and philosophical literary student, first love and fact vs. fiction. his latest effort still bears some of the postmodern leanings of his debut, but this precise and beautifully photographed (by cinematographer Inti Briones) adaptation of Alejandro Zambra's celebrated novella looks more wryly at the close bond between young lovers, saving face and creating alternate truths.
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- 3/29/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
High time to round up the films at this year's Cannes Film Festival that never saw entries of their own and send them on their way. Today: Un Certain Regard.
"Bakur Bakuradze's The Hunter seems like a ficticious version of Raymond Depardon's Modern Life, a trilogy on farming that was screened in Cannes in 2008," finds Moritz Pfeifer, who also interviews the director for the East European Film Bulletin. "With no soundtrack, no professional actors, little dialogue and a minimalist plot, the film depicts the daily life of Ivan (Mikhail Barskovich) as he peacefully runs his pig farm in one of the less populous areas of northwestern Russia…. Clearly, Bakuradze wants to depict an alternative world, and the spirit of his film is more utopian than its hyper-realistic images suggest."
Grumbles the Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt: "There is maybe 10 to 15 minutes of actual story located within this 124 minute slog,...
"Bakur Bakuradze's The Hunter seems like a ficticious version of Raymond Depardon's Modern Life, a trilogy on farming that was screened in Cannes in 2008," finds Moritz Pfeifer, who also interviews the director for the East European Film Bulletin. "With no soundtrack, no professional actors, little dialogue and a minimalist plot, the film depicts the daily life of Ivan (Mikhail Barskovich) as he peacefully runs his pig farm in one of the less populous areas of northwestern Russia…. Clearly, Bakuradze wants to depict an alternative world, and the spirit of his film is more utopian than its hyper-realistic images suggest."
Grumbles the Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt: "There is maybe 10 to 15 minutes of actual story located within this 124 minute slog,...
- 5/31/2011
- MUBI
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