Cinema
A King and His Movie
La película del rey
Carlos Sorín · 1986
Synopsis
David Vass, a self-centred young filmmaker, is obsessed with Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, the Frenchman who proclaimed himself king of Araucania and Patagonia in 1860, and wants to make an epic of it, according to Sundance. Setbacks follow one another: the press, a backer who disappears with the money, actors who leave. He carries on and recruits his performers in the street. Trigon-film describes it as a film within a film. Julio Chávez plays Vass.
Context
Released on 28 August 1986, the film was written by the director and Jorge Goldenberg. At Venice it received the Silver Lion for a first work, then the Grand Coral in Havana and the Goya for best Spanish-language foreign film in 1987. The 1987 Silver Condors went to it for first work, screenplay and three performers. Sundance showed it in 1988, and the Swiss distributor trigon-film makes it available online.
Who it is for
A bitter comedy in Spanish of an hour and thirty-seven minutes, about a film shoot that goes wrong in the south of the country.
Prizes and reception
Awarded prizes at Venice, in Cuba and at the Spanish Goyas; fifteenth in the Museo del Cine poll of 2000.
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