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La Flor (Part 1)

Mariano Llinás
Argentina
210’

LA FLOR is a complex narrative made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses: Pilar Gamboa, Elisa Carricajo, Laura Paredes and Valeria Correa. Each leaps from a fictional universe to another, as if it were a masked ball. One could be a sorceress in the first, a pop singer in the second, a mute spy in the third, herself in the fourth, a near-invisible secondary character in the fifth, before reappearing in the sixth as an escaping captive during the 19th century.

Mariano Llinás’ magnum opus – crowning the efforts of two collectives: that of El Pampero Cine and Piel de Lava (a troupe of actresses playing the leading roles in five out of the six films that, together, compose a monumental whole), LA FLOR is one of the longest films ever made – and an absolute peak of formalism. Consisting of four beginnings, a middle, and an ending, it goes backwards through time and the history of cinema, starting with popular genres like horror and soap operas and arriving at homage/pastiche and purely experimental cinema, both working inside the bounds of popular tropes and destabilising them completely. In the seven years that have passed since its release, Llinás’ flower-shaped trident has pierced right through the heart of contemporary cinema, slaying the beast so that it may be reborn. (Flavia Dima)

Friday, September 26, 18:30

Cinema Union
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Mariano Llinás

Mariano Llinás is a film director and screenwriter and is one of the members of the film group El Pampero Cine, together with Laura Citarella, Alejo Moguillansky and Agustín Mendilaharzu. He became known in 2002 with his first film, Balnearios. His film Historias extraordinarias (2008), won critical acclaim and numerous awards. His film La Flor (2009-2018) won the Hubert Bals Audience Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival for its First Part, and the Best Film Award at the 20th BAFICI Film Festival International Competition, for its three parts.

Focus: El Pampero Cine

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Clementina

Agustín Mendilaharzu, Constanza Feldman | Duration 109'

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La Flor (Part 3)

Mariano Llinás | Duration 290'

LA FLOR is a complex narrative made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses: Pilar Gamboa, Elisa Carricajo, Laura Paredes and Valeria Correa. Each leaps from a fictional universe to another, as if it were a masked ball. One could be a sorceress in the first, a pop singer in the second, a mute spy in the third, herself in the fourth, a near-invisible secondary character in the fifth, before reappearing in the sixth as an escaping captive during the 19th century.

La Flor (Part 2)

Mariano Llinás | Duration 312'

LA FLOR is a complex narrative made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses: Pilar Gamboa, Elisa Carricajo, Laura Paredes and Valeria Correa. Each leaps from a fictional universe to another, as if it were a masked ball. One could be a sorceress in the first, a pop singer in the second, a mute spy in the third, herself in the fourth, a near-invisible secondary character in the fifth, before reappearing in the sixth as an escaping captive during the 19th century.

La Flor (Part 1)

Mariano Llinás | Duration 210’

LA FLOR is a complex narrative made up of six independent, successive stories, connected by the same four actresses: Pilar Gamboa, Elisa Carricajo, Laura Paredes and Valeria Correa. Each leaps from a fictional universe to another, as if it were a masked ball. One could be a sorceress in the first, a pop singer in the second, a mute spy in the third, herself in the fourth, a near-invisible secondary character in the fifth, before reappearing in the sixth as an escaping captive during the 19th century.

Folk Traditions of the Land

Mariano Llinás | Duration 98'

This second instalment from the Commando Corsini (Pablo Dacal, Agustín Mendilaharzu and director Mariano Llinás) takes us to the plains of the Pampas where folk artist and musician Ignacio Corsini grew up and forged a vision of the world that would stay with him for a lifetime. The result of this excursion is a wandering journey around the landscapes of Argentina, its paradoxes and its ghosts, with the conviction that Corsini's life and work is a door to Argentine history, from the history of music to everyday politics.

Trenque Lauquen

Laura Citarella | Duration 128' + 132'

A woman vanishes. Two men take to the road in search of her: they both love her. Why did she leave? Each one of them has his own suspicions, and hides them from the other one who - mysteriously - never truly becomes his rival. Neither is right - but is anyone? This sudden run away becomes the hidden core of a number of fictions: the secret of another woman, lost as well, many years ago; the secret of the life of a village governed by a supernatural incident that nobody seems to perceive; the secret of the plains, which never ceases to spread and devour everything.

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