Buenos Aires Vice Versa (1996)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Alejandro Agresti

Writer:

Alejandro Agresti (writer)

Release Date:

20 March 1997 (Netherlands)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

This is Buenos Aires, its characters, its history, its reality. A complex movie for a complex city, depicted in the character's language...

Plot Keywords:

Motel | Attempted Rape | Parallel Story | Blind Girl | Rape Attempt

Awards:

8 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Vera Fogwill	...	Daniela
Nicolás Pauls	...	Damián
Fernán Mirás	...	Mario
Mirta Busnelli	...	Loca tv
Carlos Roffé	...	Service
Mario Paolucci	...	Amigo
Laura Melillo	...	Ciega
Harry Havilio	...	Tío
Nazareno Casero	...	Bocha
Carlos Galettini	...	Don Nicolás
Floria Bloise	...	Doña Amalia
Inés Molina	...	Chica
Rolando Epstein	...	Mazur
Susana Cortínez	...	Adoptive mother
Sergio Poves Campos	...	Adoptive father

Also Known As:

Buenos Aires Vice Versa (Netherlands)

Runtime:

122 min

Country:

Argentina | Netherlands

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Belgium:KT | France:U | Netherlands:12

Filming Locations:

Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina

Company:

Agresti Films

desaparecidos?

The movie is very good, technically speaking. The script, the shooting and the final cut deserves much more attention that it probably had, considering that is an Argentine film.

I disagree, however, with Mrs. Velazquez comment in what it concerns the subject of the movie in relation to the last dictatorship. I think no link between the subject of the movie and the dictatorship could be made, except for what regards the old couple that hired the services of one of the female protagonists for shooting out scenes of the everyday life with a camera, and herself being a daughter of desaparecidos. But that is in itself not the main stream of the subject the movie is meant to address. Rather, the movie is a portrait about everyday life in a Buenos Aires overwhelmed by the dramatic shift in values, decadence, domestic social (and somewhat racial) non-resolved issues, and people's spirit of survival against all odds, as result of the profound social and economical crisis that -though the economical side of it was not particularly evident at the time the film was shot- it could be seen it was coming up.