ARGENTINA
2013 / WORLD PREMIERE
1H35 – IN SPANISH
Synopsis
Sergio and his family work in a estate in Argentina’s northern region. When their employers aren’t home, they occupy the main house and emulate the life of the owners. Pia, the eldest daughter of the owner, arrives at the estate with the intention of staying a few days until her father’s marriage...
director: Agustín Toscano & Ezequiel Radusky
screenplay: Agustín Toscano & Ezequiel Radusky
cinematography: Gustavo Biazzi
editing: Pablo Barbieri
sound: Catriel Vildosola
production design: Gonzalo Delgado Galiana
cast:
Rosario Blefari
Germán De Silva
Sergio Prina
Cynthia Avellaneda
Liliana Juárez
production
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Los Dueños is not only a film about class struggle. It is also an ironic fable about what makes us always desire that which we don't have, such as these servants who take over the house of their employers when the latter have left. Or the big sister who wants the man her sibling is marrying, who in turn has caught the eye of the foreman's son. What does « staying in one's place » means as everything makes us crave somewhere else, warmer, more comfortable ? Including by confronting society's taboos.
The force of Agustín Toscano and Ezequiel Radusky's film, actors and theatre practitioners, resides in their skilful handling of a banal situations around which the power relationships that govern the rapport between the protagonists are revealed and heightened. This turns into a an obnoxious game, riddled by jealousy and deceit, drawing its rules from the power people can exert over one another : threats, seduction or blackmail.
The film is a dark and humourous manifesto without political discourse, in which the filmmakers film the promiscuity of the characters and leave red herrings along the way (a gun collection, an axe) which seem to suggest a tragic ending. The young filmmakers avoid this easy solution and ask if the real violence isn't that of immuability, that of this social fracture, which seems impassable, forcing each character to stay within their class, wearily and jealously looking at each other.
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by Xavier Leherpeur |
