Cinema
La vuelta al nido
Leopoldo Torres Ríos · 1938
Synopsis
Enrique Núñez, a middle-class accountant in Buenos Aires, is an attentive father but treats his wife harshly; life at home grows tense and troubles pile up at the office. An anonymous letter tells him that his wife is said to be deceiving him. He is described as a dull clerk caught in a passionless marriage, and Couselo judges that nothing is resolved there outside the inner life of the character, played by José Gola, opposite Amelia Bence.
Context
Completed in 1937, the film waited nine months before its premiere, on 4 May 1938 at the Cine Monumental; it was the first production of Estudios E.F.A.. The failure was complete: three days in cinemas, with critics for whom it soiled the film stock, notes Nicolás Suárez, and only Calki, in El Mundo, defended it. The film club Núcleo and the journal Tiempo de Cine reassessed it in the fifties and sixties, and Domingo Di Núbila called it the first cursed film of Argentine cinema.
Who it is for
A psychological drama in Spanish, slow and without external action, centred on a man's inner life.
Prizes and reception
Fifth in the Museo del Cine poll of 1977, after a complete failure on its release.
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