Movies: David Oubiña

Argentina, the 70’s. One morning, several armed young men, dressed in military uniform, kidnap a Senior Army General and hide him in a modest cottage. There, without the hostage’s awareness of either the reason for his imprisonment or the people who ...

Hugo Santiago discusses the process of writing with Jorge Luis Borges the screenplay for the film Invasión (1969)....

In 1969 Argentine filmmaker Hugo Santiago directed Invasión, his opera prima, written by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, and later settled in France. This film documents his return to Buenos Aires in 2013 to shoot his latest film, Le ciel ...

Isolated in his apartment, old and forgotten by almost everyone —whom, in turn, he has also forgotten— Rafael occupies the hours of his daily life with various rituals and repetitions....

An actress and her director are filming a movie. Through various texts ranging from monologues by Brecht and Joyce to tango songs by Libertad Lamarque, the film reflects on actors and acting in cinema....

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Argentine helmer Rafael Filipelli's understated and deliberate, slice-of-life drama Night Music (AKA Musica Nocturna, 2007) unfurls over the course of four evenings, with its depiction of an emotionally-strained marriage between husband and wife Fede...

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An inquiry into film criticism in Argentina framed inside the historical debate about film ontology...

A film about the Argentine opera...