Cinema
The South
Sur
Fernando Solanas · 1988
Synopsis
Floreal Echegoyen, imprisoned for five years, is released in 1983 at the end of the dictatorship, according to the Cannes Film Festival; a long night of wandering begins in a changed city and country, where people sing the tango. According to LaCinetek, he meets a missing friend there who tells him what his own people have lived through. Unifrance speaks of a love story around a coffee and a tango, that of Rosi and Floreal. Miguel Ángel Solá and Susú Pecoraro play the couple.
Context
Released on 5 March 1988, the film won its director the prize for best direction at Cannes, according to Unifrance. The music is by Astor Piazzolla, and the singer Roberto Goyeneche has a role in it, alongside Philippe Léotard and Lito Cruz. BAC Films released it in France on 7 December 1988. Restored, it was presented at Cannes Classics in 2015, and LaCinetek offers it as video on demand.
Who it is for
A film in Spanish of more than two hours, nocturnal and musical, to be followed at the rhythm of the tango rather than of the plot.
Prizes and reception
Awarded on the Croisette in 1988; thirty-third in the Museo del Cine poll of 2000.
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