Notes For a Film explained

Notas para una película
Director:Ignacio Agüero
Producer:Amalric de Poncharra
Viviana Erpel
Elisa Sepulveda Ruddoff
Tehani Staiger
Cinematography:David Bravo
Editing:Claudio Aguilar
Ignacio Agüero
Jacques Comets
Studio:Ignacio Agüero & Asociado
Runtime:105 minutes
Country:Chile
France
Language:Spanish
French
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Notes For a Film (Spanish: Notas para una película) is a 2022 Chilean–French documentary film written and directed by Ignacio Agüero.[1] Through the eyes of a young foreigner, Gustave Vernioryhttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Verniory, the film portrays the radical transformation of the recently pacified territory of Araucanía towards the end of the 19th century.[2]

Synopsis

A film which portrays the radical transformation of the territory of Araucanía at the end of the 19th through the eyes of a young foreigner, Gustave Verniory. The film draws a sensitive cinematic space, playing with and creating a dialogue between past and contemporary. It is a path that meanders between human and geographic landscapes, to reveal the deep essence of the Araucanía territory.[3]

Cast

Release

Notes For a Film had an initial premiere in mid-October 2022 at the 29th Valdivia International Film Festival.[4] It had its international premiere on November 11, 2022, at the 37th Mar del Plata International Film Festival.[5] It was commercially released on May 25, 2023 in Chilean theaters.[6]

Reception

Candelaria Carreño from Caligari Magazine wrote: "Notes For a Film seems to be a movie in progress, however, the resources it uses to account for the artifice are particularly measured. The description of the opening scene in which the guidelines of the story are set out give an account of this, and allow us to arrive at the tone that the film will maintain."[7] Diego Batlle from Otros Cines wrote: "Notes For a Film is a documentary, but it is also fiction, a historical essay, a political denunciation and a game with all the tools of cinema... The result is a patchwork, a filmic puzzle with an austere and calm tone, without demagogy or sensationalism, but at the same time bold and provocative in its proposal, absolutely pertinent in these times because it hits the nail on the head by making visible its multiple edges (historical and contemporary) a conflict that also extends to Argentina regarding how to reconcile the needs of "progress" (read capitalism) with the ancestral rights of native peoples who have been deprived of their lands, which are in many cases sacred."[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Notas para una película . 2023-03-31 . Cinechile . es.
  2. Web site: Chiledoc » Notas para una película . 2023-03-31 . es.
  3. Web site: Notes For a Film . 2023-03-31 . Marché du Film . en-US.
  4. Web site: Ignacio Agüero: "Lo fascinante es estar siempre en estado de rodaje" – Facultad de Comunicación e Imagen – Universidad de Chile . 2023-03-31 . fcei.uchile.cl . 2 November 2022 . es.
  5. Web site: Plata . Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del . 37º Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata . 2023-03-31 . www.mardelplatafilmfest.com . es-AR.
  6. Web site: Gilabert . Valentina . 2023-05-25 . "Notas para una película": Lo nuevo de Ignacio Agüero que llega a salas de todo el país . 2023-07-17 . Cinechile . es.
  7. Web site: Notas para una película (2022) de Ignacio Agüero – Caligari . 2023-03-31 . es.
  8. Web site: Festivales: Crítica de "Notas para una película", de Ignacio Agüero (Film de Clausura) – #FICValdivia2022 – Otros Cines . 2023-03-31 . www.otroscines.com.