Susú Pecoraro Movies
- 1998
In this Cuban-Argentine film, Argentine 40-year-old Laura (Susu Pecoraro), visiting Cuba for the first time on business, is divorcing her husband back in Buenos Aires. She's soon involved with smooth-talking cab driver Frank (Jorge Perugorria). Garment manufacturer Francisco (Ulises Dumont), having lost his wife, children, and home, has traveled to Cuba to kill himself, but Frank's mother (Veronica Lynn) realizes that Francisco is the teenage lover who got her pregnant. In other relationships, a gay couple (Luis Alberto Garcia and Humberto Paez) argue over whether or not to remain in the closet, and two documentary filmmakers (Jorge Martinez and Laura de la Uz) have career conflicts. Shown at the 1998 Cinequest San Jose Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- Starring:
- Susú Pecoraro, Jorge Perugorría, (more)
- 1989
Love of great literature is one of the outstanding features of South American culture. This Argentine drama, mixes imagination and "reality" and includes a film-within-a-film story about making a film about Kafka. The writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born to a German Jewish family in Czechoslovakia. In an uncanny way which prefigured the Holocaust, Kafka wrote about absurd, terrifying situations taking place in a nihilistic universe in which almost everyone can be considered a victim. The movie explores his romantic and intellectual life before he died at age 41 of tuberculosis. Sigmund Freud, whom Kafka never actually met, makes an appearance in the story. The film-within-a-film has an Argentine movie director travel to Prague to try and produce a film there about Kafka's loves, only to discover that the studio there is busy filming Amadeus. Though these elements are confusing to read about, some reviewers felt that the director somehow made a coherent and enjoyable film out of them. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jorge Marrale, Susú Pecoraro, (more)
- 1988
Like Solanas' previous film Tangos (1985), South is a film about a forced exile (in the form of imprisonment) and a painful reunion in the midst of political turmoil. It is also a story about the healing power of nostalgia. The story is set in 1983 just after the fall of the military dictatorship and the restoration of the democracy. For the past five years, Floreal has been a political prisoner. He is released in the evening, but rather than returning straight home to his wife Rosi, he decides to wander around to gather his thoughts and sort through his mixed emotions concerning not only the deaths of his closest friends, but also the lonely, long-suffering Rosi's affair with Floreal's best friend Roberto. Everything in his old neighborhood has changed dramatically and as Floreal aimlessly wanders, a dense fog blankets the political pamphlet covered streets, lending a dreamlike atmosphere to the night. Occasionally, he is visited by the ghosts of former friends and co-workers. Meanwhile, Rosi nervously waits in her bedroom for Floreal to return. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, (more)
- 1985
The abuse endured by an indomitable prostitute does not kill her spirit in this drama based on short stories by Bernardo Kordon. Luisa (Susu Pecoraro) and her older sister Herminda (Ana Maria Picchio) are streetwalkers in Buenos Aires, but very different in their attitudes. Where Herminda is blithely frank about her job, Luisa is not as casual. On a trip home to bring her mother and little brother to the city (to help care for Herminda's baby), Luisa is viciously gang-raped by her former boyfriend and his cohorts -- but she endures. She eventually gets a job in a massage parlor but is fired when she nixes a client -- and she still endures, back on the streets again. Her sister scorns her, her new boyfriend dumps her, a dear friend is murdered -- yet Luisa never gives in to despair. Popular at the Argentine wickets, this drama has much going for it -- in particular a woman who is a victim but denies it with no problem at all. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, (more)
Camila O'Gorman (Susan Peccaro) is the daughter of an influential 19th century Argentine diplomat (Hector Alterio). Ladislao Gutierez (Imanol Arias) is a Jesuit priest, also living in Argentina. Tortured by her so-called impure thoughts, Camila confesses these to Gutierez. Flouting tradition, convention, and the repressive Rosas political regime, Camila and the priest embark on a torrid affair. Based on a true story, the Spanish/Argentine co-production Camila was honored with a Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Susú Pecoraro, Héctor Alterio, (more)
- 1983
In a trenchant and well-acted exposition of the effects of corruption on a small barrio, Argentine director Fernando Ayala has personalized the problems in this one neighborhood and at the same time, implied that its issues embrace the nation at large. Troubles start for Luis (Federico Luppi), a family man devoted to supporting his wife, son, and daughters, when a work crew arrives on their street to start digging to lay pipes for running water. But the new service is for only one half of the street, the other half lies in the wrong county. Soon the neighbors on the wrong side of the street are banding together to bribe the laborers to run illicit pipes to their homes as well, except that Luis cannot in all clear conscience join them. When he adamantly refuses to participate in the bribe scheme, everyone turns against him, even those in his own family. Reluctantly, he caves in to their pressure and goes to negotiate with the supervisor in charge of the pipeline work. Unfortunately, he is mistreated and the two get into a fight. It does not take long for policemen to arrive and needless to say, only one man is the guilty party here in the eyes of the law. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Federico Luppi, Julio de Grazia, (more)
When a wife with two children discovers that her husband has been having an affair with another woman, she is so deeply wounded that she leaves home, will not talk to him again, and refuses to accept her mother's advice that she reconcile with the unfaithful spouse. Her world, as she had known it, has ended and now she drifts for awhile, trying to find a new place for herself, while still seeing her mother and children. Her quest begins to bear fruit when she meets a gay man at a therapy session and they become fast friends. She also finds a temporary home at the apartment of a happy-go-lucky roommate who has a "revolving door" stream of boyfriends. The woman slowly starts to edge out of her depression, gets a job, and starts having a relationship or two again. She goes so far as to spend an afternoon with her husband at a secluded rendezvous, and while seemingly torn between her old existence or a new, independent life, after that moment with her husband, she changes for good. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Luisina Brando, Julio Chaves, (more)
- 1980
An uneven love story with good acting that helps sustain interest, Mis Dias con Veronica features a September-May relationship in which the woman has more going for her than her younger lover. Veronica (Dora Baret) is forty-two and a sensible, forthright person who has a fairly good grip on the world around her. Her co-worker and eventual lover (Oscar Cruz) is thirty-two and has not yet had the time to develop her insight, if he ever will. The progress of their love affair occupies center stage, with the problems of their boss (Hector Bidonde) adding to the mix. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dora Baret, Susú Pecoraro, (more)
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