Argentine Movie Recommendations

[Viajero Mike]

Apasianados with Natalia Verbeke (whol is drop dead gorgeous) the story about a hot girl who wants her friends boyfriend to be the surrogate father of her baby.

Cautivo is excellent good BsAs scenes

Dolores de Casada story of a middle age couple with a daughter.

Some Spanish movies from spain

Mal uva story of a retired hitman called on to do one more job to save his vineyard. More comic than a drama

The perfect crime (crimen imperfecto) with Guilermo Toledo comic story of a clothing salesman who whacks his boss and must marry the ugly women who witnessed him doing it. The scene where she brings him home to meet the family is priceless.

 

[Vagrant Violet]

My favorite Argentine movie is "No Sos Vos, Soy Yo." It's comedy about a guy who goes through a sudden divorce after his unfaithful wife admits to cheating on him long distance, and he suffers a lot of "growing pains" trying to get back onto the dating scene with hilarious setbacks, but with a happy ending (of course )

I also started watching "Un Novio Para Mi Mujer" but haven't gotten around to finishing it yet, but so far, so good!

 

[soleta]

One of my favorite movies:
Leonera by Pablo Trapero (women's jail, kind of documentary through fiction, very strong and beatiful at the same time) Here is a post (in spanish) where I wrote about it that has the trailer and a little more info: http://extracine.com/2009/12/pelicula-indispensable-leonera-de-pablo-trapero

Something lighter:
El viento se llevó lo que (Its about a town in Patagonia where the young people have language problems because they only watch broken movies. A kind of social magic story. I saw it many years ago but I remember it very sweet and fun)


If you want hard comedy: Esperando la carroza, itś incredible how they scream all the time and you cant get tired of it.

So many... we should make a home festival

 

[gusgutier]

"Tiempo de revancha " excellent thriller, as well as all Adolfo Aristarain movies.
"Esperando la carroza" comedy
"la tregua"

 

[Lucas]

Las Viudas de los Jueves...the dark side of a perfect life.

Las viudas de los jueves - Trailer-

 

[gatoverde]

If you should run out of Argentinian films here's a couple of good Uruguayan films you should watch-btw, their accents will be quite alike and they tend to speak a tad more slowly so that might help too

Whisky

El baño del Papa

Gigante

Enjoy!

 

[ReemsterCARP]

25 Watts is a nice Uruguayan movie as well.

 

[wineguy999]

XXY - technically Uruguayo, but very good. Un Novio Para mi Mujer, Taxi: Un Encuentro.

 

[Gaucho Sam]

Seconds here for Kamchatka and Cama Adentro.

LT22 Radio La Colifata is a documentary about the radio station of the same name set up in a psychiatric hospital in BA, which was massively popular here a few years ago (I think, but am not sure, that it's been shut down since - I'm sure longer-standing BA-dwellers/board members will confirm this). It's a very moving film, it'll introduce you to some highly colourful porteño slang, and it's got quite extensive footage of a Manu Chao gig (as well as a soundtrack written by the man himself).

Iluminados Por El Fuego is about the experience of a young solider during the Falklands/Malvinas war, and stars Gastón Pauls (the guy who plays Juan in Nine Queens). I saw it at the Manchester Latin American Film Festival in 2006 and was lucky enough to meet the writer afterwards - it's based on his actual experiences and obviously it was quite a major thing for him that it got accepted to be shown at a film festival in the UK.

Good luck with the learning process. I went to see Darín's new film Carancho last week in the cinema - first time I've watched a Spanish-language film without subtitular assistance! Wasn't sure how much of it I'd get but my God it was rewarding when I came out!

 

[Mano Negra]

I don't watch many Argentine movies, but 'Tetro' is about 3/4 English 1/4 Castellano, and is really a great movie that was set in and filmed in Buenos Aires.

Just watched it. Fabulous!