A nation’s 2020 vision: is this the year that Argentine genre cinema arrives? first published (under a different title) by Through the Trees, 14 December 2020. Includes capsules of: The Returned; The Funeral Home; History of the Occult; Murder Me, Monster Way back in 1997, Pablo Parés and Hernán Sáez directed and starred in Argentina’s…
The Returned (Los Que Vuelven) first published by Through The Trees “I want my son to be alive,” says Julia (María Soldi) clutching her stillborn baby by a spectacularly cascading waterfall at the beginning of The Returned (Los Que Vuelven). “Bring my son back,” she prays – and then we hear the sound of a…
In the opening scene of Benavidez’s Case, in which a Board of art dealers discusses the current financial returns on the contemporary art scene, we learn that Pablo Benavidez (Guillermo Pfening) is both Argentina’s most in-demand artist, and dead. Everyone wants a piece of Benavidez for their own, but with no possibility of further production,…