Cinema
Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes
Pizza, birra, faso
Synopsis
Four young squatters in Buenos Aires, Cordobés, Frula, Megabom and Pablo, share a house with Sandra, Cordobés's pregnant partner, according to the Turin festival. They live off petty thefts, but a small-time boss keeps most of the loot. The Mar del Plata programme quotes Cordobés's motto: as long as there is beer, pizza and cigarettes, the rest can be put up with. Héctor Anglada and Pamela Jordán play the roles.
Context
Presented at the Mar del Plata festival, the film was released in Argentina on 15 January 1998. It received the Grand Prix and the International Critics' Prize at Fribourg, and at Gramado the Golden Kikito for direction, for film and for screenplay. The Silver Condors also went to it. Turin presented it in competition in 1998, Mar del Plata and Nantes have shown it again since.
Who it is for
A film in Spanish of an hour and a half, with very dense street speech, about a gang of young thieves.
Prizes and reception
Tenth in the Museo del Cine poll of 2000, eighth in 2022; awarded prizes at Fribourg and Gramado.
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