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Another director to have made a mark on Argentina cinema is the late Fabián Bielinsky.
He left behind a small but powerful body of work that includes his award-winning feature
Nueve reinas
(Nine Queens; 2000), which inspired a 2004 Hollywood remake,
Criminal
.
His last film, the 2005 neo-noir flick
El Aura,
screened at Sundance and was the official
Argentine entry for the 2006 Oscars.
Lucrecia Martel has left an indelible trace on Argentina's contemporary cinema. Her
2001 debut,
La ciénaga
(The Swamp), and the 2004 follow-up,
La niña santa
(The Holy
Girl), both set in Martel's native Salta province, deal with the themes of social decay, Ar-
gentine bourgeois and sexuality in the face of Catholic guilt. Another acclaimed director,
Carlos Sorin, takes us to the deep south of Argentina in two of his neorealist flicks, the
2002
Historias mínimas
(Minimal Stories) and the 2004
Bombón el perro
(Bombón the
Dog).
Argentina's biggest film event is the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Film,
held in April. Check out
www.baici.gov.ar
for more information.
Juan José Campanella's
El hijo de la novia
(Son of the Bride) received an Oscar nomin-
ation for best foreign-language film in 2001. His 2004 award-winning film
Luna de avel-
laneda
(Moon of Avellaneda) is a masterful story about a social club and those who try to
save it. And in 2010 Campanella won the Oscar for best foreign-language film with his
El
secreto de sus ojos
(The Secret in Their Eyes).
Other noteworthy films include Luis Puenzo's Oscar-winning
La historia oficial
(The
Official Story; 1985), Sandra Gugliotta's bust-out directorial debut
Un día de suerte
(A
Lucky Day; 2002),
Un oso rojo
(A Red Bear; 2002) by Israel Adrián Caetano,
Roma
(2004) by Adolfo Aristarain,
Iluminados por el fuego
(Enlightened by Fire; 2006) by
Tristan Bauer and
El hombre de al lado
(The Man Next Door; 2009) by Mariano Cohn
and Gastón Duprat.
And up-and-coming director is Lucía Puenzo (daughter of Luis Puenzo). Her
XXY
(2007) won multiple awards at Cannes that year; it follows the travails of a 15-year-old
hermaphrodite. In 2013 Puenzo directed
Wakolda
(The German Doctor), a true story
about the family who unknowingly lived with Josef Mengele during his exile in South
America.
