A comprehensive retrospective of the work of filmmaker José Celestino Campusano: the ultimate insider portraying the conflicts and contradictions of the working class in Argentina today.
Films in ‘José Campusano’
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Vil romance
José Celestino Campusano IFFR 2018 105′Roberto is young, unemployed and has nowhere to sleep. By chance he meets Raúl, a man many years his senior who could be his father, but with whom he begins a problematic love relationship. Homosexual love within the codes of the 'primitive' peripheral urban area of Buenos Aires is only one layer in a fascinating portrait of a culture with different rules and values.
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Placer y martirio
José Celestino Campusano IFFR 2018 101′A woman, married with a daughter, loses control over herself after going wild because of her erotic passion for a mysterious businessman. Campusano's unexpected incursion into the world of the rich somehow entails a parody of some TV representations of the lives of wealthy people, although its main concern is to associate eroticism and vampirism.
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El arrullo de la araña
José Celestino Campusano IFFR 2018 78′Simón, the owner of a hardware store, humiliates and constantly controls his four employees. Through this universally recognisable situation, Campusano paints a portrait of microscopic power exerted in the realm of labour without forgetting about other forms of abuse directly related to history.
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El azote
José Celestino Campusano IFFR 2018 88′The determination and dedication of a former musician who is now a social assistant in Bariloche – one of the best-known tourist resorts in Patagonia – is not enough to avoid the misfortunes experienced by local youths. This film reveals, without concessions, the picture never presented in the postcards of this town.