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Animarse a ms
Re-Animator
Detrs de muchos de los tanques de Pixar aparece el An Argentine name is behind many of the Pixar
nombre de un argentino que, desde el gigante de la blockbusters. Gastn Ugarte creates fantasy universes
animacin, s
e ocupa de crear universos de fantasa: inside the giant of animation, and comes to Mar del
Gastn Ugarte presenta Coco en Mar del Plata. Plata to present Coco.
HONG SANG-SOO
La pera prima de Ryu Seung-wan, The origin of Ryu Seung-wans first feature
estrenada en 2000, tiene un origen is very peculiar: released in 2000, the
ms bien particular: en realidad est film is actually made up of four different
compuesta por cuatro cortometrajes short films that were shot over the course
realizados a lo largo de tres aos y of three years, and originally screened
exhibidos originalmente de forma independently from one another. But its
independiente. Pero tampoco se trata de not an anthology, either, because even
una antologa ya que, si bien cada una though they are aesthetically different,
tiene su esttica particular, la historia que they all tell the same story at four different
narra es la misma en cuatro momentos periods in the characters lives. And the four
diferentes en la vida de sus protagonistas. shorts feature high-impact fight scenes,
Y los cuatro cortos estn atravesados por but not in a conventional way. Instead of
unas escenas de pelea de alto impacto, the excellently and neatly choreographed
pero no de manera convencional: en fight scenes we see all the time in Asian Prcticamente un participante ilustre Practically an illustrious participant of
lugar de las tpicas peleas coreografiadas genre films, Die Bads fight scenes are raw, del Festival de Mar del Plata, el japons the Mar del Plata Film Festival, Japanese
que tanto hemos visto en el cine oriental often unbearable, and shot with a nervous Sion Sono est presente cada ao, dando director Sion Sono is present every year,
de gnero, las de Die Bad son sucias, por hand-held camera that nevertheless keeps muestras cada vez ms feroces, cada vez proving each time in a more ferocious and
momentos casi imposibles, filmadas con a constant eye on what is happening. The ms inslitas de por qu es considerado outrageous way why he is considered to
una cmara de mano inquieta pero que final fifteen minutes, a montage between uno de los directores ms subversivos, be one of the most subversive, restless and
nunca pierde de vista lo que sucede en a one-on-one fight and a fight between inquietos e imaginativos del cine japons. imaginative of Japanese director. Tokyo
cuadro. Los quince minutos finales, un dozens of characters, are especially Tokyo Vampire Hotel, su nueva locura Vampire Hotel, his new insanity (an
montaje paralelo entre una pelea mano a remarkable, and quite unforgettable. (versin resumida de una serie que el edited version of a series the director shot
mano y otra entre decenas de personajes, director film para Amazon), transcurre for Amazon), takes place in an immediate
son especialmente notables en este Hoy / Today, 22:40, CIN 2; en un futuro inmediato, en el ao 2021, future the year 2021 when vampire
sentido, y difcilmente olvidables. SA / SAT 25, 23:50, ALD 5 cuando la realeza vamprica construye royalty builds a hotel with the intention
un hotel con la intencin de alimentarse of feeding from the blood of its guests. At
de la sangre de sus huspedes. Al the same time, two clans (the Draculas
mismo tiempo, dos clanes (los Drcula and the Corvins) fight for a woman who
y los Corvin) se pelean por una mujer has very special features. This is just the
con caractersticas muy especiales. Ese starting point for a promise of action,
es solo el punto de partida para una delirious comedy, absurdity, and lots of
promesa de accin, humor delirante, blood: a combo of situations the director of
absurdo y muchsima sangre, un combo Suicide Club delivers every year, and will
de situaciones al que el director de Suicide delight midnight-movie fans.
Club nos tiene acostumbrados aos tras
ao, y que har las delicias de los devotos Hoy / Today, 21:50, ALD 3;
al cine de medianoche. DO / SUN 26, 22:10, ALD 3
Outrage: Coda
A pura furia yakuza, Kitano se pone al frente y detrs de la cmara With pure yakuza rage, Kitano puts himself in front of and behind the camera
para cerrar su triloga Outrage, que empez en 2010. Las expectativas in order to close his Outrage trilogy, which he started in 2010. The expectations
haban quedado altas luego de Outrage 2 (2012), y por supuesto que were high after Outrage 2 (2012), and of course the director was able to find
el director supo encontrar la forma de estar a la altura. Luego de cinco the way of living up to them. Five years after having survived the savage war
aos de haber sobrevivido a la guerra salvaje entre los clanes Sanno y between the Sanno and Hanabishi clans, Otomo now plays a role that is
Hanabishi, Otomo se encuentra en un rol diferente del que ocupaba en different than the one he had in the most powerful spheres of the mafia. He
las esferas ms poderosas de la mafia. Ahora trabaja en Corea del Sur now works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, and everything seems to have cooled
para Mr. Chang y todo parece haberse relajado. Pero, por supuesto, nada off. But, of course, nothing can remain this quiet for a long time, and chaos is
puede permanecer demasiado tranquilo durante mucho tiempo y un unleashed by an incident (a much smaller one than its actual consequences) that
incidente (mucho ms pequeo que sus consecuencias) es la chispa brings an array of bullets and fighting. Changs own projects cross with those of
que haca falta para que todo se descontrole, a fuerza de plomo y lucha. the Hanabishi clan, and not in a very nice way. In this new context, facing his old
Los proyectos de Chang se cruzan (no de una manera amable) con los acquaintances, Otomo can do nothing but return to Japan. Once there, he will
negocios del clan Hanabishi. En este nuevo contexto frente a viejos have to solve some unfinished business, once and for good. Shooting, blood and
conocidos, Otomo no podr hacer otra cosa que volver a Japn. Una violence are the condiments for one of those vertigo-filled movies through which
vez all, ser el momento de resolver asuntos pendientes de manera Takeshi Kitano moves with a Zen comfort.
definitiva. Tiros, sangre y violencia son los condimentos para una Japn - Japan, 104
pelcula repleta de vrtigo de esas en las que Takeshi Kitano se mueve D: Takeshi Kitano
con una comodidad zen. Hoy / Today, 15:35, AMB 1
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MAR DE CHICOS CHILDREN BY THE SEA PANORAMA DE CINE ARGENTINO ARGENTINE CINEMA PANORAMA
Nios peculiares
Peculiar Kids
Luis Pescetti est en Mar del Plata para acompaar a Natacha, la pelcula, ins-
pirada en sus populares libros. Antes de las funciones, se acercar a las salas
para conversar con el pblico y leer algunos de sus textos
Luis Pescetti is in Mar del Plata to join Natacha, the Movie, inspired by his popular
books. Before the screenings, he will attend the theaters to chat with the audience and
read some of his texts.
Cmo surgi el personaje de Natacha? How was the character of Natacha
Por qu crees que se convirti en este born? Why do you think she became the
A aos luz
fenmeno? phenomenon it is now?
Fui profesor de msica durante aos en I was a music teacher in elementary schools
escuelas primarias; los profesores vamos for many years; teachers go to lots of schools,
a muchas escuelas, muchos salones, to lots of classrooms, we work with kids
del resto
trabajamos con chicos de lunes a viernes. from Monday to Friday. At second grade, I
En segundo grado tena a una niita muy had a very lovable, lively girl, and used to
simptica, pizpireta, y yo sola decir algo say something like, Im going somewhere to
como me voy a un lugar a hacer una cosa.
do something. Once, I mixed this girl with
Una vez junt a esa chica con esta idea, y
desarroll esa conversacin. Me fui a vivir
a Mxico y cada vez que volva a Argentina
this idea, and developed that conversation. I
moved to Mexico and every time I returned to
Light Years Away from the Rest
me decan que el cuento que haba escrito Argentina they would tell me that the story Manuel Abramovich logr meter su cmara (y su odo) en el rodaje de Zama,
a partir de esa experiencia lo usaban los I had written based on that experience was la ltima obra maestra de Lucrecia Martel. El resultado, Aos luz, confirma
promotores del libro, que era El pulpo est used by the promoters of the book, which was no solo el valor enorme de la realizadora saltea, sino la carrera en ascenso
crudo, y que los chicos se rean. Por ese El pulpo est crudo, and that kids laughed del director de Solar.
feedback se me ocurri desarrollar ms with it. With that feedback, I thought of
historias de Natacha. Aos despus conoc developing more Natacha stories. Years later, Manuel Abramovich managed to get his camera (and his ear) into the shoot of
los trabajos de filosofa para nios de I discovered Matthew Lipmans work on Zama, Lucrecia Martels latest masterpiece. The result, Aos luz, not only confirms
Matthew Lipman y me gust jugar con la philosophy for children and I liked the idea the enormous value of the filmmaker from Salta, but also the ascending career of
filosofa, el lenguaje, el humor. Y as fue of playing with philosophy, language and the director of Solar.
creciendo el mundo de Natacha: primero humor. This way, Natachas world continued Si esperamos casi una dcada por la If we have waited almost a decade for Lucrecia
cre a los paps y luego agregu un grupo to grow first I created her parents, and vuelta de Lucrecia Martel, lo mnimo Martels return, the least we could get was more
de varones que eran muy particulares. then I added a group of very peculiar boys. que podamos obtener era ms que than just a film (the quotation marks are, of
Todo esto, libro a libro (hoy son nueve), All of this, book after book (they are nine, apenas una pelcula (las comillas son, course, due to the fact that the film in question
se fue dando como un equilibrio; as se so far), was like some kind of balance; then claro, porque esa pelcula es Zama, is Zama, a masterpiece and probably one of
fue haciendo el contrapeso de personajes a counterbalance in the characters was una obra maestra y probablemente the best films in Argentine film history). Zama
hasta que ms tarde se descubri que una de las mejores pelculas en la didnt come alone. It brought with her a shooting
made until later on it was discovered that
la mam de Natacha era as porque su historia del cine argentino). Zama no journal written by Selva Almada El mono en
Natachas mom was like because her mother,
madre, la abuela, era un personaje todava vino sola. Trajo con ella un diario de el remolino and this documentary by Manuel
the girls grandmother, was an even bigger
mayor. As se fue completando el cuadro: rodaje escrito por Selva Almada El Abramovich, who, as a sound intruder, captured
las chicas con las que tienen la disputa, los character. The picture was completed that
mono en el remolino y este documental the meticulous work of the director from Salta and
varones, los paps. way -the girls with whom they have the
de Manuel Abramovich, que como un the warm, human, joyful precision with which
dispute, the boys, the parents.
intruso sonoro captur el meticuloso she adjusts every single detail that happens in
Cres que pelculas como Natacha pueden
trabajo de la directora saltea y la clida, the films shots. I am light years away from being
abrir el camino para que se haga ms cine Do you believe films like Natacha can pave
infantil en Argentina? humana y divertida precisin con la que able to be the protagonist of a film, says Martel to
the way for more childrens films to be Abramovich when he mails her his idea of making
Ojal Natacha abra primero su propio made in Argentina? ajusta cada detalle que sucede en los
camino; le deseo lo mejor a esta historia de planos de su pelcula. Yo estoy a aos a documentary with her as the main character.
I hope Natacha paves its own way; I wish the What the director says is, in part, true: Martel is
nios reales que tienen conflictos reales y los best for this story of real kids who have real luz de poder ser la protagonista de una
resuelven como pueden hacerlo realmente. pelcula, le dice Martel a Abramovich light years away. From the rest.
conflicts and solve them the way they really Far from the idea of a behind-the-scenes, Aos luz
Eso me gustara que tenga un buen destino. cuando este le plantea por mail su idea
can. I would like that to succeed. was born as a secondary film, detached from the
de un documental que la tenga a ella
Qu es lo que ms te gusta de la pelcula? one she was shooting, says Abramovich who, at the
What do you enjoy most about the film? como personaje principal. Lo que dice la
Lo que ms me gusta es que me sorprendi beginning of the film, shows how he approached
encontrar a nios tan parecidos a los de las What I like the most is that I was surprised directora es, en parte, cierto: Martel est
the shoot. I was interested in the idea that, in Aos
escuelas en las que yo me inspir. Dio toda la to find children as similar to those school kids a aos luz. Del resto.
luz, Zama was this huge, constant out-of-field
vuelta. that inspired me. It went all the way around. Lejos de la idea de un making of,
element, a film in which we would see Lucrecia
Aos luz naci como una pelcula
shooting, but without having direct access to her
Natacha, la pelcula secundaria, desprendida de la que ella
material. And experience it through her eyes, her
Argentina, 70 Hoy / Today, 16:10, ALD 6; est filmando, cuenta Abramovich
indications, her gestures, states the director, who
D: Fernanda Ribeiz, Eduardo Pinto DO / SUN 26, 13:30, ALD 6 que, desde el comienzo de su film, was also part of this Festivals edition with Soldado
muestra cmo se acerc al rodaje. Me (Argentine Competition) and whose work reveals
interesaba la idea de que, para Aos luz, him as a more than promising local filmmaker.
Zama fuera todo el tiempo como un
gran fuera de campo, una pelcula en Hoy / Today, 22:30, ALD 2;
la que viramos a Lucrecia filmando su DO / SUN 26, 19:50, ALD 2
pelcula, pero sin tener acceso directo a
su material de trabajo. Percibirla a travs
de su mirada, de sus indicaciones, de sus
gestos, asegura el director, que tambin
particip en esta edicin del Festival con
Soldado (Competencia Argentina) y se
perfila como un realizador local ms que
prometedor.
Aos luz
Argentina, 75
D: Manuel Abramovich
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GASTN UGARTE
Pix.ar
Gastn Ugarte, el argentino que trabaja en Pixar, habla de su experiencia con
Coco, el nuevo ttulo del estudio en el que trabaj en pelculas como Wall-E, Va-
liente y Un gran dinosaurio.
Gastn Ugarte, the Argentinian working at Pixar, talks about his experience with Coco,
the new title from the studio where he worked on films like Wall-E, Brave and The
Good Dinosaur.
Sbado de superautores
Auteurs on Saturday
Lejos de apaciguar el ritmo cerca del cierre, esta edicin del Festival cuenta para Far from slowing the pace near the end, the Festival enters the last weekend of this edi-
el comienzo de su ltimo fin de semana con dos nombres fundamentales de la tion featuring two essential names of the big screen. Frederick Wiseman and Richard
pantalla grande. Engalanando la seccin Autores, Frederick Wiseman y Richard Linklater embellish the Auteurs section with their more than personal styles, and prom-
Linklater, con sus dos estilos ms que personales, prometen un plan inolvidable. ise an unforgettable weekend plan.
Mo Jieun, miembro del Comit del KOFIC, Ralph Haiek, presidente del INCAA, y
Directores de la competencia Work in Progress / Directors from the Work in Pro- Jang Jin-sang, director del Centro Cultural Coreano / Mo Jieun, KOFIC Comittee mem-
gress Competition. ber, Ralph Haiek, INCAA President, and Jang Jin-sang, Head of the Korean Cultural Center. 7
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