The cinematic contrast between America and Latin America was on tragic view at the Maine International Film Festival on Saturday.
Argentina
Film Review: “Wild Tales” From Argentina — Fascinating Visions of the Id Gone Wild
Director and writer Damián Szifrón fills his tales with lethal ironies and jarring twists of fate that build with relentless momentum to resolutions that somehow manage to be both horrid and comical.
Book Review: “The Secret in Their Eyes” — An Impressive Work of Art
The novel is a brilliant psychological thriller, and several other things as well — a very quiet love story, a narrative of a remarkable friendship between two men, and an exploration of the corruption rampant in Argentine politics in the late 60s and 70s.
Book Review: Of Childhood and State Terror
Set in the beginning of the “Dirty War” of Jorge Rafael Videla’s military junta in Argentina, a period characterized by assassination and disappearance, “Kamchatka” is a superb novel that refracts public, political events through the sensibilities of everyday life. Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras. Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne. Black Kat, Grove/Atlantic, 311 pages […]
