- La peli
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name = The Film
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director =Gustavo Postiglione
producer =Marcelo Altmark Claudio Joison
writer = Gustavo Postiglione
narrator =Darío Grandinetti
starring = Darío GrandinettiNoelia Campo Norman Briski Carlos Resta Raúl Calandra Jazmín Stuart
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cinematography =Héctor Molina
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released = Argentina2005
runtime = minutes
country = ARG
language = Spanish
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imdb_id = 0323609La Peli ("The Film") is a 2006
Argentine movie directed byGustavo Postiglione and starringDarío Grandinetti ,Noelia Campo ,Norman Briski ,Carlos Resta ,Raúl Calandra andJazmín Stuart . It debuted in the 2007Mar del Plata Film Festival , winning a Best Film nomination. Filming took place inRosario, Santa Fe .Synopsis
Diego Simonney (Grandinetti) is a lonely man living by the sea, once a famed film director, thence fallen into decadence and oblivion, having lost control of his movie and, subsequently, his life. Through flashbacks we're shown Simonney's crescent indifference towards the movie he is trying to make, with camera-shy, third-rate actors (Calandra and Stuart) and an even a worse script. He finds redemption in the love for Ana (Campo), an
Uruguay an who used to be his student. But passion is extinguished, and obsession takes place as Simonney follows Ana around with his camera, stalking her and her newfound lover, a deputy. Simonney changes shapes, abandoning the film and being taken for dead (he is portrayed by Briski and Resta according to his mood and attitudes). Solitude overtakes him, and he exiles himself to a bar by the sea, retconning with the beginning of the story.The final scene has Ana stepping into Simonney's bar, and after a lengthy tale of lovers lost and passion dead, they recognize each other. The ending finds Simonney abandoning his camera and being forgiven by Ana.Themes
The movie pays homage to Fellini's films to great extent: several references are made to "
La dolce vita " and "8 1/2 " throughout the film. The protagonist is a frustrated, veteran director with a style of his own that grows weary of fame and showbusiness and seeks refuge in women (one of them in particular, Ana, perhaps a reference toAnita Ekberg from "La Dolce Vita"). Obsession and melancholy are intermixed withcomic relief sequences where Simonney tries to direct his movie with dubious actors (even Fellini's trademark clown makes a cameo during the shooting). Other Fellini references includet multipleforeshadow ing (the ending included), "intellectual parties" and old movie posters.External links
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