Mundo Grúa
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| Directed by | Pablo Trapero |
| Produced by | Lita Stantic Pablo Trapero |
| Written by | Pablo Trapero |
| Starring | Luis Margani Adriana Aizemberg Daniel Valenzuela |
| Music by | Francisco Canaro |
| Cinematography | Cobi Migliora |
| Editing by | Nicolás Goldbart |
| Distributed by | Cinema Tropical INCAA Lita Stantic Producciones |
| Release date(s) | June 17, 1999 |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country |  Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
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Mundo Grúa (English: Crane World) is an Argentine 1999 film, written and directed by Pablo Trapero.[1]
The film was produced by Lita Stantic and Pablo Trapero.
It stars Luis Margani, Adriana Aizemberg, and Daniel Valenzuela.
The movie was partly funded by Argentina's INCAA.
The picture is about working class life in Argentina that's gritty (filmed in sepia, black and white). The film follows the fortunes in the life of Rulo, an unemployed suburban man, who tries to earn a living as a crane operator in Buenos Aires.
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[edit] Plot
The film tells of Rulo (Luis Margani), a moderately successful musician in the 1970s.
Today he's divorced and an unemployed forty-something day-laborer living in Buenos Aires in the late 1990s. He's anxious for whatever work he can find. He lives with his son who's also musically inclined, and his mother (Graciana Chironi).
His best friend Torres (Daniel Valenzuela), who has connections in the Argentine construction industry, finds him work as a large crane operator.
Rulo is dating Adriana (Adriana Aizemberg), who runs a sandwich shop.
He lands a job as an excavating machine operator in distant Patagonia. The workers live in a remote farmhouse and the relationship between management and labor is difficult.
One day the workers are not fed during lunch so they refuse to work until they eat. Rulo soon discovers that making a fresh start at a late age proves to be harder than he first thought.
[edit] Exhibition
The film opened in Argentina on June 17, 1999. Later it was presented at the Toronto Film Festival on September 17, 1999.
The picture was screened at various film festivals, including: the Sundance Film Festival, Colorado, USA; the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands; the Fribourg Film Festival, Switzerland; the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, Argentina; the New Directors/New Films, New York; and others.
[edit] Production
[edit] Casting
Pablo Trapero, in neo-realist fashion, used extras and bit players when he filmed.
[edit] Critical reception
Film critics were very receptive to the film and it was well received at the various film festivals it was shown.
Film critic Stephen Holden, who writes for the New York Times, liked the look and tone of the film. He said, the picture "is a stylistic throwback to 1940's Italian neo-realism. The movie's grainy, sepia-toned cinematography and low-key naturalistic performances by a cast of nonprofessionals enhance its slice-of-life authenticity."[2]
Film critic Diego Lerer, a member of FIPRESCI, wrote an extensive essay on Pablo Trapero's cinema works. He reviewed Mundo Grúa favorably and believes Trapero's film is advancing the "New Argentina Cinema Wave" and his film continues to break away from the older Argentine storytelling. He said, "Trapero's film dared to break even freer from the classic narrative models. Even though the film has a story, and one that advances with utter efficiency, Crane World respects the characters' internal rhythm like none of the other films by young Argentineans had done so far...In Trapero's film, the scenes are developed in all their length."[3]
[edit] Cast and ratings
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| Argentina: | Atp |
| Chile: | 14 |
| France: | U |
| Germany: | 6 |
| Italy: | T |
| Netherlands: | 16 |
| United States: | PG-13 |
- Luis Margani as Rulo
- Adriana Aizemberg as Adriana
- Daniel Valenzuela as Torres
- Rolly Serrano as Walter
- Graciana Chironi as Rulo's mother
- Federico Esquerro as Claudio
- Alejandro Zucco as Zucco
- Alfonso Rementería
[edit] Awards
Wins
- Venice Film Festival: 'Cult Network Italia' Prize; Anicaflash Prize; both for Pablo Trapero; 1999.
- Havana Film Festival: Special Jury Prize; Pablo Trapero; 1999.
- Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema: Best Actor, Luis Margani; Best Director and OCIC Special Award, Pablo Trapero; 1999.
- Fribourg International Film Festival: Don Quixote Award; Ecumenical Jury Award; FIPRESCI Prize, For a first feature film offering a direct and truthful look at a personal strive for a decent life and solidarity; SAA Script Award; all for Pablo Trapero; 2000.
- Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Silver Condor; Best First Film, Pablo Trapero; Best New Actor, Luis Margani; Best Supporting Actress, Adriana Aizemberg; 2000.
- Rotterdam International Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize Tiger Competition, Pablo Trapero, For the sober and coherent realism with which it portrays the main character's humanity; Tiger Award, Pablo Trapero; 2000.
- Toulouse Latin America Film Festival: Grand Prix, Pablo Trapero; 2000.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Mundo Grúa at the Internet Movie Database.
- ^ Holden, Stephen. New York Times, "An Unemployed Guy Who Won't Follow Doctor's Orders," April 3, 2000.
- ^ Lerer, Lerer. FIPRESCI, "Cinemas of the South: Pablo Trapero: Family Pictures," 2006.
[edit] External links
- Mundo Grúa at the cinenacional.com (Spanish).
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