Uruguay-Spain
2009/35mm/110mins – AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
WEDNESDAY 4 NOVEMBER 8.15 pm – Dendy
THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2.00 pm – Dendy
A combination of quirky dark drama and deadpan satire plays out in this stylish tale of a washed up wrestler, a smooth conman and a sleepy village in South America.
In a highly impressive debut feature, director Alvaro Brechner takes us to a quiet backwater of Uruguay in the 1960’s — just another town on the scam-and-run itinerary of slick but dodgy Count Orsini and his side-kick ex-wrestler Jacob Van Oppen. Together they plan to take the town’s naïve inhabitants for a fistful of dollars in a rigged wrestling bout, but get caught up in an unanticipated series of events when they cross paths with a smarter than usual newspaper editor and a beautiful woman desperate to help her husband beat the professional muscleman.
Cannes Film Festival – Critics Week
Other festival screenings at Montreal and Cambridge
“Uruguayan director Alvaro Brechner’s ambitious debut is something like a retro The Wrestler by way of the Coen brothers” Jordan Mentzer, Variety
“An exquisitely shot, full-blooded art film” Espoocine
BAD DAY TO GO FISHING
(MAL DÍA PARA PESCAR)
Writer/Director Alvaro Brechner Executive Producer Adolfo Blanco Cast Gary Piquer, Jouko Ahola, Antonella Costa Print Source GreenBox Films New York USA
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