Cinema
Secret Wedding
Boda secreta
Alejandro Agresti · 1989
Synopsis
The police arrest a naked man wandering outside a Buenos Aires metro station; no trace of him has been found for twelve years, and he remembers only the fiancée he left in his village. He goes back there, she does not recognise him, he becomes her friend and gets caught up in the village's political quarrels over the priest. Tito Haas and Mirta Busnelli play the roles.
Context
Co-produced by Argentina, the Netherlands and Canada, the film was shown in Canada on 18 August 1989. It received the Golden Calf for best feature film at the Dutch festival. It never had a theatrical release in Argentina: it was seen in Buenos Aires film clubs, then on Canal 7 in June 2004. The Pacific Film Archive programmed it in May 1990.
Who it is for
A fable in Spanish of an hour and a half, between village comedy and the return of a missing man.
Prizes and reception
Awarded in the Netherlands, praised in Toronto, but never released in cinemas in its own country.
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