Review of The South

The South (1988)
8/10
Nice match of images and music
5 July 2008
Warning: Spoilers
This is the third of Solanas' films that I watched. I heard quite some familiar tunes from Astor Piazolla, accompanied by a lot of dreamy scenes. The night cityscapes are charming and the montage is excellent. The film is about love, life, and hope. Some people died, some disappeared, some just live on, while politics and romance is interwoven together.

Hardly know how it was during the dictatorship era in Argentina. But tragedies are similar. Conscientious citizens got arrested, no right to express opinions, books ruined and public muted by brazen authority. History never stops repeating itself, here or there.

Sometimes it reminds me the later works of Fellini. Maybe it's because of the supernatural feeling and the Latin language.
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