The first story is a kind of B-film about a cursed mummy; the second episode blends a drama about a musical duo that is still going to record a song together, despite the broken relationship, with the vicissitudes of a murky society looking for a serum for eternal life. Both episodes do have a start, but end in medias res.
STARRING
Elisa Carricajo
Valeria Correa
Pilar Gamboa
Laura Paredes
WRITER
Mariano Llinás
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Agustín Mendilaharzu
SOUND
Rodrigo Sánchez Mariño
MUSIC
Gabriel Chwojnik
FILM EDITING
Agustín Rolandelli
Alejo Moguillansky
PRODUCTION
El Pampero Cine
Piel de Lava
DISTRIBUTION
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)
ARP Sélection
Mariano Llinás
Mariano Llinás started off his career in cinema in 2002 with Balnearios, an ironic and unconventional filmic essay about luxurious Argentinian bathresorts. He reached a wider recognition with his project Historias extraordinarias (2008), a four-hour film full of interwoven mysteries, which was lauded by Argentine critics and received numerous awards, including the Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Independent Film Festival of Buenos Aires (Bafici). Llinás is part of El Pampero Cine, a group of filmmakers who try to carry out their activities outside of the traditional financing structures of industrial cinema. In 2011 he won the Konex Award as one of the 5 best film directors of the decade in Argentina.
FILMOGRAPHY
2002 : BALNEARIOS (Documentary)
2008 : EXTRAORDINARY STORIES (Historias extraordinarias)
2018 : LA FLOR