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Rapado
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Wikipedia article
'Rapado' is an Argentine and Dutch 1992 drama film, written and directed by Martn Rejtman, in his first feature film. It is considered by critics as the film who started the New Argentine Cinema, or NCA (Nuevo Cine Argentino), an aesthetic movement representing a fundamental break with the Argentine cinema of the late 1980s and early 1990s, by introducing new narrative elements and a strong realistic style.
Synopsis
A teenager's motorcycle, money and sneakers are stolen. He then tries to steal another motorcycle to replace the one gone, but fails. In the course of a few days, his obsession with finding a suitable motorcycle to steal leads to a series of interconnected events between several people with apparently nothing in common.
Cast
* Ezequiel Cavia
* Damin Dreizik
* Mirta Busnelli
* Horacio Pea
* Lucas Marty
* Cecilia Biagini
* Jos Glusman
* Pichn Baldin
* Vernica Llins
Background
The director/producer Martn Rejtman used a minimalist style in making this film. He said, "When I made 'Rapado', I felt that Argentinean cinema had too much dialogue, and bad dialogue at that. I hate adornments, I hate artifice, I hate anything that's unnecessary, because there really is nothing beyond the screen."Surez, Pablo. 'New Argentine Cinema: Themes, Auteurs and Trends of Innovation,' (Ediciones Tatanka, 2002).
Exhibition
The film was first presented at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland in August 1992. It was released wide in Argentina on 1 August 1996.
Critical reception
Pablo Surez, a film critic for the 'Buenos Aires Herald' and a member of FIPRESCI Argentina said, "['Rapado', his] first feature demonstrated that another type of cinema was possible in Argentina, one capable of pushing boundaries. 'Rapado' was an absolute oasis in a land plagued by films with agonizing narratives, with neither depth nor genuine inspiration, and yet still subsidized by a State [through the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA); also referred to as the Argentine National Film Board - an autharquic agency which is part of the Argentine Government and is dedicated to financing film projects] in favor of the 'status quo'."Surez, Pablo. Ibid.
Awards
'Wins'
* Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Silver Condor; Best First Film, Martn Rejtman; 1997.
'Nominations'
* Locarno International Film Festival: Golden Leopard; Martn Rejtman; 1992.
References
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