Blog del Instituto Cervantes de Dublín

El ciclo de cine argentino llega a su fin con la aclamada película Tango del director Carlos Saura. Puedes disfrutarla a partir de las 18:00 horas en el Café Literario.

Mario Suárez es un director de cine entrado en los cuarenta y que está atravesando una crisis, pues su mujer Laura le ha abandonado a causa de una depresión. Mario intenta refugiarse en la película que está rodando sobre el tango, pero acaba enamorándose de la protagonista, Elena, una bailarina cuyo amante es un mafioso que ha invertido dinero en la producción.

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Today is the last session of the Argentinian Film Series with the screening of the critically aclaimed film Tango by Carlos Saura. You can enjoy it at 6pm at Café Literario.

Set in Buenos Aires, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez’s quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience. Things become complicated when Mario falls in love with Elena, a beautiful and talented young dancer who is the girlfriend of the powerful and dangerous Angelo Larroca, an investor in the picture.

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Don´t forget you appointment this Thursday at 6pm at Cafe Literario.  We continue with the film series “A film, a book”  with ¡Ay Carmela! a Spanish film directed in 1990 by Carlos Saura and based on the eponymous play by José Sanchís Sinisterra. The film stars Carmen Maura, Andrés Pajares, and Gabino Diego as a trio of traveling players performing for the Republic, who inadvertently find themselves on the Nationalist side during the closing months of the Spanish Civil War.

The film is based on a play by José Sanchis Sinisterra who is a Spanish playwright and theatre director.  He is best known, outside of Spain, for his award-winning play, ¡Ay Carmela!  His work swifts between tradition and contemporary tendencies, combining narration and the dynamism of theatre in order to involve the audience in the play.

The director is Carlos Saura,  an internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker and photographer. In 1992 he was awarded the Golden Medal of the Spanish Academy of Sciences and Film Arts. In his first steps, he used the documentary style to raise awareness for the deprived people. Some of his films, notably La caza, Peppermint Frapé, La prima angélica and Cría cuervos have received multiple awards.

The screeening will be followed by an open discussion.