Jorge Marrale Movies

Crises of Argentina's past and present meet head on in this psychological drama, the first feature film from director and screenwriter Lucia Cedron. It's 2002, and Argentina is teetering on the verge of economic collapse when Arturo (Jorge Marrale), a successful ranch owner, is seized and held captive by kidnappers. The kidnappers contact Arturo's granddaughter Guillermina (Leonora Balcarce) and demand a large ransom in exchange for his safe return; however, the economic crisis has left him short on ready cash, and the family doesn't have enough money to make the payoff. Teresa (Mercedes Moran), Guillermina's mother, has left Argentina for France, but flies in to help her daughter in her time of need, though she seems uneasy about getting involved in the crisis at hand. Back in the Seventies, Teresa and her husband Paco (Juan Minujin) were part of a radical group trying to overthrow the military regime ruling Argentina, and she's been asked to testify about the abuses of the ruing junta as part of a public inquest. One of the few people with the money and power to help Guillermina is Gen. Alejandro (Horacio Pena), who has been friends with Arturo for years; he is willing to help pay the ransom, but under one condition -- that Teresa refuse to testify at the upcoming hearings. Cordero de Dios (aka Lamb Of God) received its world premiere at the 2008 Rotterdam Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

A pair of childhood friends find that their bond has not weakened with the passing of years in this affecting drama from filmmaker Daniel Barone. For nearly a decade, Jaoquin (Adrian Suar) has suffered from depression, but when his childhood friend Mara (Leticia Brédice) returns home after eight years away, the clouds soon begin to part for Jaoquin. As the old friends share memories of the past and visit the place where time seemed to stop for them as children, an old bond once again grows strong and the caring friends take solace in the familiarity of their surroundings. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

A masked killer has gunned down the owner and editor of a famous political magazine in the print magnate's own home, but who would have the motivation to commit such a high-profile crime? As the police begin the dogged task of interviewing potential suspects and witnesses, they soon discover that everyone from the victim's lover to his brother seems to have his or her own take on the events. The more information the police get, the more tangled the web of intrigue gets -- leading to a tense, pulse-pounding climax that rivals that of even master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock! ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Bolivian-born Marcos Loayza directed this Argentine tale of city-teen Manuel, son of a successful chemical engineer father and a photographer mother. Manuel prefers to sit at his computer, so he protests when his parents tell him to go with his father on a visit to his grandfather, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War. Manuel spends time talking to his grandfather, but he also explores the winter countryside near a lake, and during his wanderings he meets a young woman who introduces him to sex. He sees his father in a new light after she tells him that his father's chemical company has polluted the lake, causing a death. Shown at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

This international co-production is loosely based on the works of Dostoyevsky (most notably The Eternal Husband) but it is set and lensed in Prague. Musician and incorrigible duellist Milan (Tim Roth) seduces Teresa (Ana Belen), the wife of his unsuspecting friend Franz (Peter Firth). Many years later, after Teresa's death, Franz comes to Milan with a little daughter. Milan suspects that Franz knows about his longtime affair with Teresa and that the daughter might be Milan's own. When the girl dies from a grave illness, Milan challenges Franz, but the latter refuses to shoot him at the duel. ~ Yuri German, Rovi

In this moody and artistically oriented variation on a standard horror premise, a group of ambitious young actors and another group of actors whose careers are on the wane have agreed to work for a film which requires them to sign an unusual contract. They are to live under certain conditions at a haunted mansion and will not be permitted to leave. The gloomy and spiritually tainted atmosphere of the place drives a number of them to commit suicide, and the rest of them apparently go crazy, in this filmic hommage to the works of exiled Chilean director Raul Ruiz. Rather than being a horror film, this is apparently intended as a highly symbolic drama with fantastic elements and political overtones: reviewers felt that the film suffered enormously as a result. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi