- Title: ARGENTINA-FILM Argentine film, “El Clan” to compete at Venice Film Festival
- Date: 3rd August 2015
- Summary: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (AUGUST 03, 2015) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF ARGENTINE FILMMAKER, PABLO TRAPERO, AT NEWS CONFERENCE BEFORE THE OPENING OF HIS LATEST FILM, "EL CLAN" CLOSE-UP OF LOGO FOR, "EL CLAN" (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ARGENTINE FILMMAKER, PABLO TRAPERO, SAYING: "I'm also happy to be back in the competition (Venice Film Festival) because it has been a long time since Argentina has had a film in competition in Venice. So that brings joy too. The hope is just like everywhere the film goes, that it does that best it can do. At festivals, it isn't necessarily whether or not it wins a prize that means it does well or not. There is a long history of films that have won prizes and then afterwards didn't go anywhere, and vice versa, of films that did really well, but didn't win prizes. Or films that did really well but the critics didn't like them much or that the critics loved, but they didn't win any prizes. It is really hard to think of the (film) festivals like a sporting competition where the winner is the runner who runs the fastest."
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- Story Text: Argentine filmmaker Pablo Trapero will return to the Venice Film Festival this year with his latest film, "El Clan (The Clan)."
The police drama is based on the real-life Puccio family who in the early 1980s kidnapped and murdered several people in a well-to-do area just north of Buenos Aires.
The dark film follows the tight-knit family as they hold victims captive in their San Isidro home in order to extort their families for cash obtained by ransom.
The film will be in official competition at the world famous film festival and is Trapero's first time back to Venice since his 1999 film, "Mundo Grua (Crane World)".
"I'm also happy to be back in the competition (Venice Film Festival) because it has been a long time since Argentina has had a film in competition in Venice. So that brings joy too. The hope is just like everywhere the film goes, that it does that best it can do. At festivals, it isn't necessarily whether or not it wins a prize that means it does well or not. There is a long history of films that have won prizes and then afterwards didn't go anywhere, and vice versa, of films that did really well, but didn't win prizes. Or films that did really well but the critics didn't like them much or that the critics loved, but they didn't win any prizes. It is really hard to think of the (film) festivals like a sporting competition where the winner is the runner who runs the fastest," Trapero said.
The film stars Argentine actor Guillermo Francella as the Puccio patriarch, Arquimedes Puccio and actor Peter Lanzani who plays Arquimedes's son, Alejandro.
Francella said Trapero was key in helping him portray the sinister Arquemedes.
"The process of working with Pablo (Trapero) was really helpful for to me to give life to these kinds of individuals with whom you don't have any kind of kinship with whatsoever; not in spirit, behaviour or anything. Opposites are great for actors and to be able to explore something in an interpretative way, something different, that makes you uncomfortable, it's usually ideal for me," said Francella.
The film officially opens in Argentina on August 13.
The Venice Film Festival will run September 2-12. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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