Mala Época
6.2 /10 1 Votes
Cast Daniel Valenzuela Duration Language Spanish | 6/10 IMDb Cinematography Javier Julia Genres Drama, Indie film Country Argentina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Mariano De Rosa
Rodrigo Moreno
Salvador Roselli
Nicolas Saad Release date November 13, 1998 (1998-11-13) (Mar del Plata Film Festival) Writer Mariano De Rosa, Rodrigo Moreno, Salvador Roselli, Nicolas Saad Directors Rodrigo Moreno, Mariano De Rosa, Salvador Roselli, Nicolas Saad Similar movies The Lighthouse (1998) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Florencia bertotti en mala poca 1998
Mala época (English: Bad Times) is a 1998 Argentine drama film. The film was executive produced by Mario Santos.
Contents
This dramatic anthology of four episodes represents the collaborative effort of Mariano De Rosa, Rodrigo Moreno, Salvador Roselli, and Nicolás Saad. Each wrote and directed an episode. All are graduates of Argentina's primary film school, the Universidad del Cine, which helped fund the film.
The film offers an unflattering look at Argentine society as it prepares to enter the 21st century.
Plot
The picture has four vignettes and all of them take place in the late 1990s in Buenos Aires during political elections.
The Wish: centers on a poor boy from the country who finds success in the fast city by participating in one of its many illegal operations.
Life and Works: follows a band of Paraguayan bricklayers as they try to reestablish a sense of cultural pride and community after meeting a woman whom one of them believes is the Virgin Mary.
Hard Times: follows a teenage outcast and his efforts to find romance with an upper-class Buenos Aires girl.
Comrades: the sound recorder of a political campaign finds himself falling for the candidate's girlfriend.
Cast
Distribution
The film was first presented at the Mar del Plata Film Festival on November 13, 1998. It opened wide in the country on January 1, 1999.
It also competed in the 1998 Torino International Festival of Young Cinema, and was nominated for the Prize of the City of Torino.
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