Un amour impossible
Empathy-arousing French adaptation of Christine Angot’s bestseller in which Rachel can’t seem to escape her doomed love affair.
134'
France
IFFR 2019
What was the Argentinian mindset immediately preceding Jorge Videla’s right-wing military coup? Director Benjamín Naishtat’s darkly funny, highly stylish film immerses itself in Argentina’s collective subconscious in 1975, resulting in an X-ray image of madness and moral decline. This is his third feature film in four years.
Set in an Argentinian provincial town, an unknown man and a crime unsettle the quiet life of a successful lawyer. It’s not that the lawyer committed the crime; rather, his looking the other way and doing nothing led to people dying. Filmed in the style of 1970s crime dramas, Rojo can be seen as an absurd thriller and as a bitter analysis of the national indifference that led to Argentina suffering four consecutive military coups in 1976. As in Rojo, countless people disappeared in the desert, never to be seen again.
IFFR 2019
- 109'
- Argentina
- 2018
- Director
- Benjamín Naishtat
- Countries of production
- Argentina, Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 109'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- Spanish
- Producers
- Federico Eibuszyc, Barbara Sarasola Day, Rachel Daisy Eliis, Emmanuel Chaumet, Marleen Slot, Ingmar Trost, Dan Wechsler, Jamal Zeinal Zade
- Production Companies
- Pucará Cine, Desvia Produções, Ecce Films, Viking Film, Sutor Kolonko, Bord Cadre Films
- Sales
- Luxbox
- Screenplay
- Benjamín Naishtat
- Cinematography
- Pedro Sotero
- Editor
- Andrés Quaranta
- Production Design
- Julieta Dolinsky
- Sound Design
- Fernando Ribero
- Music
- Vincent van Warmerdam
- Cast
- Dario Grandinetti, Andrea Frigerio, Alfredo Castro, Diego Cremonesi, Rafael Federman, Raymond E. Lee
- Local Distributor
- September Film
- Director
- Benjamín Naishtat
- Countries of production
- Argentina, Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany
- Year
- 2018
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 109'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- Spanish
- Producers
- Federico Eibuszyc, Barbara Sarasola Day, Rachel Daisy Eliis, Emmanuel Chaumet, Marleen Slot, Ingmar Trost, Dan Wechsler, Jamal Zeinal Zade
- Production Companies
- Pucará Cine, Desvia Produções, Ecce Films, Viking Film, Sutor Kolonko, Bord Cadre Films
- Sales
- Luxbox
- Screenplay
- Benjamín Naishtat
- Cinematography
- Pedro Sotero
- Editor
- Andrés Quaranta
- Production Design
- Julieta Dolinsky
- Sound Design
- Fernando Ribero
- Music
- Vincent van Warmerdam
- Cast
- Dario Grandinetti, Andrea Frigerio, Alfredo Castro, Diego Cremonesi, Rafael Federman, Raymond E. Lee
- Local Distributor
- September Film
Programme IFFR 2019
Limelight
Avant-premieres of some of the cinematic highlights of the year: international award-winners and festival favourites which will be released in Dutch cinemas after IFFR.
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Adaptation of war reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski’s most famous book mixes hyper-realistic animation, documentary, hallucinatory impressions and literary soul searching.
86'
Poland
IFFR 2019
Asako I & II
In this gender-flipped Vertigo set in Japan, Asako’s encounter with her ex-lover’s lookalike sees her confronting the messiness of love.
119'
Japan
IFFR 2019