Thu May 1, 2014
The Militant, Manolo Nieto (Uruguay/Argentina, 2013)
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at Pacific Film Archive Theater
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San Francisco International Film Festival @ BAM/PFA
A packinghouse workers’ strike forms the backdrop to this coming-of-age story set during the 2002 economic crisis in Uruguay. Ariel, a leader of a university occupation in support of the strike in the capital of Montevideo, learns that his father has died. He goes home for the burial and finds other like-minded youngsters. Though he is beset by a speech impediment and a partly palsied right arm, Ariel’s earnest, low-key demeanor earns the respect of his peers, even though they can’t seem to get to step two of radical politics, favoring sex, drugs, and rock and roll instead. Felipe Dieste portrays Ariel with a perfect ambiguity: from the radical thinker certain what the next step for the movement should be, to the bewildered Everyman who struggles to make sense of his world as the student revolutionary becomes the boss of his father’s ranch and finds himself responsible for paying months of back wages to the gauchos stiffed by his dad. This sensitive, multilayered film, brimming with metaphor and suggestion, was the most-awarded film at the Havana Film Festival, winning second place for best narrative feature, best cinematography, and the film critics’ FIPRESCI Prize.
—Miguel Pendás
• Written by Nieto. Photographed by Arauco Hernández Holz. With Felipe Dieste, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Rossana Cabrera. (121 mins)
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A packinghouse workers’ strike forms the backdrop to this coming-of-age story set during the 2002 economic crisis in Uruguay. Ariel, a leader of a university occupation in support of the strike in the capital of Montevideo, learns that his father has died. He goes home for the burial and finds other like-minded youngsters. Though he is beset by a speech impediment and a partly palsied right arm, Ariel’s earnest, low-key demeanor earns the respect of his peers, even though they can’t seem to get to step two of radical politics, favoring sex, drugs, and rock and roll instead. Felipe Dieste portrays Ariel with a perfect ambiguity: from the radical thinker certain what the next step for the movement should be, to the bewildered Everyman who struggles to make sense of his world as the student revolutionary becomes the boss of his father’s ranch and finds himself responsible for paying months of back wages to the gauchos stiffed by his dad. This sensitive, multilayered film, brimming with metaphor and suggestion, was the most-awarded film at the Havana Film Festival, winning second place for best narrative feature, best cinematography, and the film critics’ FIPRESCI Prize.
—Miguel Pendás
• Written by Nieto. Photographed by Arauco Hernández Holz. With Felipe Dieste, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Rossana Cabrera. (121 mins)
San Francisco International Film Festival @ BAM/PFA
A packinghouse workers’ strike forms the backdrop to this coming-of-age story set during the 2002 economic crisis in Uruguay. Ariel, a leader of a university occupation in support of the strike in the capital of Montevideo, learns that his father has died. He goes home for the burial and finds other like-minded youngsters. Though he is beset by a speech impediment and a partly palsied right arm, Ariel’s earnest, low-key demeanor earns the respect of his peers, even though they can’t seem to get to step two of radical politics, favoring sex, drugs, and rock and roll instead. Felipe Dieste portrays Ariel with a perfect ambiguity: from the radical thinker certain what the next step for the movement should be, to the bewildered Everyman who struggles to make sense of his world as the student revolutionary becomes the boss of his father’s ranch and finds himself responsible for paying months of back wages to the gauchos stiffed by his dad. This sensitive, multilayered film, brimming with metaphor and suggestion, was the most-awarded film at the Havana Film Festival, winning second place for best narrative feature, best cinematography, and the film critics’ FIPRESCI Prize.
—Miguel Pendás
• Written by Nieto. Photographed by Arauco Hernández Holz. With Felipe Dieste, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Rossana Cabrera. (121 mins)
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A packinghouse workers’ strike forms the backdrop to this coming-of-age story set during the 2002 economic crisis in Uruguay. Ariel, a leader of a university occupation in support of the strike in the capital of Montevideo, learns that his father has died. He goes home for the burial and finds other like-minded youngsters. Though he is beset by a speech impediment and a partly palsied right arm, Ariel’s earnest, low-key demeanor earns the respect of his peers, even though they can’t seem to get to step two of radical politics, favoring sex, drugs, and rock and roll instead. Felipe Dieste portrays Ariel with a perfect ambiguity: from the radical thinker certain what the next step for the movement should be, to the bewildered Everyman who struggles to make sense of his world as the student revolutionary becomes the boss of his father’s ranch and finds himself responsible for paying months of back wages to the gauchos stiffed by his dad. This sensitive, multilayered film, brimming with metaphor and suggestion, was the most-awarded film at the Havana Film Festival, winning second place for best narrative feature, best cinematography, and the film critics’ FIPRESCI Prize.
—Miguel Pendás
• Written by Nieto. Photographed by Arauco Hernández Holz. With Felipe Dieste, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Rossana Cabrera. (121 mins)
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