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Just
recovering from the exciting second edition of the
BA FICI, cinema lovers in Buenos Aires are receiving the
second edition of a non- competitive festival for a whole week
that claims to offer sixteen films made in Spain and France during
the last couple of years, which have been awarded or presented
in the most prestigious film festivals around the world.
After a very successful first edition in October 1999,
the Village Cinemas complex in Recoleta -one of the fanciest areas
in the city- is providing three theatres for this much awaited
festival, once again sponsored by the official Film Institute
of Spain (ICAA), Unifrance Film International and Europa Cinema
Center; whose directors, Carlos Morelli and Oscar Rodríguez, are
once again in charge of the festival's programming and organization.
Some 20 special guests have arrived from both countries
to enrich the screening of their films. French beauty Emmanuelle
Béart is here to present Danièle Thompson's La Buche;
and Spanish actress Ana Fernández will do the same for Solas
(Alone) by Benito Zambrano, and Sé quién eres
(I Know Who You Are) by Patricia Ferreyra, that also features
Ingrid Rubio -another special guest- and the Argentinean actors
Miguel Angel Solá and Héctor Alterio.
In the "Luis Buñuel" theatre, Spain brings along the acclaimed
Luis Garcia Berlanga's Paris-Tombuctú -winner of
two awards at the 1999 Mar del Plata International Film Festival;
Saura's Goya in Bordeaux and Mensaka,
Salvador Garcia Ruiz's directorial debut on the lives of six very
different young adults.
France has the privilege of offering some of its finest
productions, including Munich International Film Festival's Best
Film, Le
Petit Voleur (Little Thief) by Erick Zonca,
the amazing director of La Vie Revée des Anges.
San
Sebastian's winner C'est
quoi la vie?
(What is life?), by François Dupeyron, may become one of
the highlights of this festival; along with Michel Deville's La
Maladie de Sachs (Sachs' Disease), the rural fable
on a doctor that suffers a strange illness due to his own mistakes
as a medicine man, and Frédéric Fonteyne's Une liaison pornographique
that shook audiences at last year's edition of Venice. Nevertheless,
the public in Buenos Aires is always eager to receive the best
of European cinema, and this "Mediterranean feast" will go on
through the southern region of the continent, as the festival
is afterwards travelling to Córdoba, Rosario and Mendoza (in Argentina);
Santiago (Chile); Montevideo (Uruguay) and Asunción (Paraguay).
FilmFestivals.com
reporter
Clara Fernandez Escudero
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