Boquitas Pintadas

The second novel of Manuel Puig (1932-1990), author of ” El beso de la mujer Araña”, “Pubis Angelical” and “La traición de Rita Hayworth” , was the first of his novels to be adapted for cinema, and the one in which he considers that his rich and visual literary language is best  materalized. Taking place in a town in Argentine in the thirties, BOQUITAS [...]

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La Maffia

La Maffia inaugurates in the filmoraphy of Leopoldo Torres Nilsson a trilogy dedicated to the sordidest aspects of the History of Argentina in the decades of 1920 and 1930, a trilogy that he completed with “El pibe Cabeza” and “Los siete Locos”. Based on true characters whose names in a few cases were modified to [...]

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Martín Fierro

Published in 1872, Martín Fierro is the argentinian epic poem par excellence. His author, José Hernández (1834-1886), was forced to exile and in the protagonist character of the gaucho he depicted the spirit of the argentinian people, subjugated by the dictatorial rule of the political class in power, as arbitrary as destructive. Martín, the protagonist, [...]

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