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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = The Distinguished Citizen
| image = The Distinguished Citizen.png
| caption = Film poster
| native_name = El ciudadano ilustre
| director = Gastn Duprat & Mariano Cohn
| producer =
| writer = Andrs Duprat
| screenplay =
| story =
| based_on =
| starring = Oscar Martnez
| music = Toni M. Mir
| cinematography = Gastn Duprat & Mariano Cohn
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| distributor =
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| runtime = 118 minutes
| country = Argentina
Spain
| language = Spanish
| budget = $1.7 million
| gross = $3.6 million
}}
'The Distinguished Citizen' is a 2016 Argentine-Spanish comedy-drama film directed by Gastn Duprat & Mariano Cohn. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. At Venice Oscar Martnez won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. It was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. It won Best Ibero-American Film at the 4th Platino Awards.
Plot
A recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who has been living in Europe for decades, accepts an invitation from his hometown in Argentina to receive a prize. In his country, the protagonist finds both similarities and irreconcilable differences with the people of his hometown.
Cast
* Oscar Martnez as Daniel Mantovani
* Dady Brieva as Antonio
* Andrea Frigerio as Irene
* Beln Chavanne as Julia
Production
'The Distinguished Citizen' came together over five years and had a US$1.7 million budget. Screenwriter Andres Duprat proposed the story based on his experiences as an art curator jurying work in small towns. Martinez was an early consideration for the lead and collaborated on the script. He called the fictional town of Salas an uncomfortable mirror of Argentina, and Montovani's exile in Spain reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges's time spent in Europe.
Shooting took place over eight weeks, primarily in Navarro, which stood in for Salas. The directors selected it after considering 58 municipalities, citing the town's historic center, scarce traffic, lagoon, club, town square, and small television channel. Other locations included Lobos for the flat tire scene, the El Trbol club in Villa Urquiza for the author's lectures, and the Teatro Opera in Buenos Aires for the Nobel awards sequence.
A book of the same title purportedly written by the film character Mantovani describing his visit to his hometown was published in Argentina ahead of the film. The directors described the actual but anonymous author as a "heavyweight of the literary world".
Reception
Critical reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100%, based on 13 reviews, and an average rating of 7.2/10.Accolades
See also
* List of submissions to the 89th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
* List of Argentine submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
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