Argentinian

  • MARILYN: an Argentinean coming-of-age story that doesnt end well

    MARILYN: an Argentinean coming-of-age story that doesnt end well

      Teenage Marcos (Walter Rodríguez) lives in a remote part of Argentina on his family’s dairy farm with his parents and his elder sibling.  They barely eake out a living to support them all and whilst his mother Olga (Catalina Saavedra) toughened by their daily existence is insistence that Marcos becomes a farm laborer, his…

  • Men Of Hard Skin : a dark abusive coming-of-age tale set in the Argentinian countryside

    Men Of Hard Skin : a dark abusive coming-of-age tale set in the Argentinian countryside

      Teenage Ariel (Wall Javier) lives in a large rambling farm outside of Buenos Aires with his machismo father ( Claudio Medina) and older sister (Camila Diez) after his mother had upped and left some years previously. .He’s a major disappointment to his father as he is a quiet sensitive boy who shows no interest…

  • El Angel

    El Angel

      In Luis Ortega’ s dramatized intriguing take on the Argentinian real-life convicted murderer, rapist, kidnapper and thief Carlos Robledo Puch he uses all the unwarranted violence to glorify the teenage killer.  In the movie Carlitos, (Lorenzo Ferro) as he is called,  is a baby-faced curly-haired pretty high school-student who has already become something of…

  • My Best Friend

    My Best Friend

      Lorenzo (Angelo Mutti Spinetta ) is a shy geeky teenager who much prefers to keep his nose buried in a book than be out playing sports with his classmate.  He lives with his younger sibling in their family home in a remote part of Patagonia which they had moved too some years ago from Buenos…