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Trenque Lauquen

Laura Citarella
Argentina / Germany
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.

Laura Citarella’s monumental Trenque Lauquen is woven around the idea of female visibility, which permeates every layer of the film. A woman named Laura vanishes, leaving few traces behind, only for two men, Rafael and Ezequiel, to start looking for her. These male gazes wander in her absence, relying solely on their own inner vision, their subjective memory, to recover a lost image. However, blinded by their male egos, the two come to the wrong conclusions: Laura’s truth is one that breaks the seemingly mundane surface of a small provincial town, but also that of a socially naturalised patriarchy—a radical act of rejection of a flat and (cishetero)normative existence. (Flavia Dima)

Thursday, September 25, 18:00

Cinema Union
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Laura Citarella

Born in La Plata (Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina), Laura Citarella graduated as a film director from the Universidad del Cine. Since 2005, she has been part of the El Pampero Cine Production Company, along with Mariano Llinás, Alejo Moguillansky and Agustín Mendilaharzu. She directed films such as Ostende (2011), La Mujer de los Perros (2015) (Co-directed with Verónica Llinás) and Las Poetas visitan a Juana Bignozzi (2019) (Co-directed with Mercedes Halfon). Trenque Lauquen is her fourth film. Citarella has also made a name for herself as one of the biggest independent movie producers in Argentina. Her production work includes, among others, Mariano Llinás’s Extraordinary Stories and La Flor, and Alejo Moguillansky’s Castro, The Parrot and the Swan, The Goldbug and For the Money.

Focus: El Pampero Cine

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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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