Cinema
Rapado
Martín Rejtman · 1996
Synopsis
Lucio, a teenager in Buenos Aires, has his motorbike, his money and his trainers stolen, according to the Rotterdam festival; he wanders barefoot through the city at night. He shaves his head and gets it into his head to steal a similar motorbike. Rotterdam also mentions shoes that are too small and a fake hundred-peso note. Ezequiel Cavia plays the role.
Context
An Argentine-Dutch co-production that its author wrote, directed and produced, the film was shown at Locarno in August 1992, in competition, then released in Argentina on 1 August 1996. It received the Silver Condor for best first work in 1997. For the critic Pablo Suárez, of the Buenos Aires Herald, it showed that another cinema was possible in the country. Rotterdam screened it again in 2014, Nantes in 2017.
Who it is for
A dry comedy in Spanish of seventy-five minutes, about a boy, a stolen motorbike and a city at night.
Prizes and reception
Awarded by Argentine critics for a first film; regarded as the one that opened up a different cinema in the country.
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