Cinema
Man Facing Southeast
Hombre mirando al sudeste
Eliseo Subiela · 1987
Synopsis
Doctor Julio Denis runs a ward of a neuropsychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires, according to the Ghent festival. A young man who calls himself Rantés arrives there and claims to come from another planet; he plays the chapel organ and says he is a holographic projection. The doctor first takes him for a faker, then for a delusional paranoid. Lorenzo Quinteros and Hugo Soto play the leading roles.
Context
Presented at the Toronto festival in September 1986, the film was released in Argentine cinemas on 2 April 1987. The José Borda psychiatric hospital is its setting, and one scene is played to Beethoven's Ninth. At San Sebastián, it received the prize of the International Catholic Organisation for Cinema in 1986. Subiela accused an American film of 2001 of plagiarism. It was screened in Belgium in 1988.
Who it is for
A drama in Spanish of an hour and forty-five minutes, bordering on the fantastic, shot in a psychiatric hospital.
Prizes and reception
Honoured at San Sebastián in 1986; tenth in the Museo del Cine poll of 2000.
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