Sergio Boris Movies
- 2006
Director Diego Lerman follows a group of Buenos Aires denizens as they struggle to make important life decisions in this tale of interconnecting lives in contemporary Argentina. Melancholy Eva is attempting to forget about the past. Advised by a palm reader to watch for signs that will tell her how to move forward, Eva immediately washes away the marks meant to guide her before being set free from her woes by an unexpected act of violence. In another part of the city, Eva's old acquaintance Violeta will be forced to choose between fleeing to Spain with her partner Mono, or leaving him in the dust to start a new life of her own. But in the meantime, Mono is awaiting Violeta's decision before making his own choice about the future. Though Mono's mild-mannered friend Ciego yearns to give his wife a healthy child, his sterility makes that prospect impossible and Ciego is soon asking Mono for the ultimate favor. While Ciego is setting up a romantic tryst between his wife and his best friend, mama's boy Dalmiro is attempting to cut the apron strings and build the groundwork for a healthy future with pretty Eva. It's easy to get through life when you know exactly what it is that you want, but sometimes it's just more interesting when you don't. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Valeria Bertuccelli, Maria Merlino, (more)
Airline pilot-turned-whistleblower-turned-actor Enrique Pineyro makes his debut as a writer/director with the autobiographical docudrama Whisky Romeo Zulu. Pineyro essentially plays himself, a principled pilot at LAPA, the Argentinean airline, increasingly dismayed over the company's disregard of basic safety regulations. When he complains, he's labeled a troublemaker, and when things get so bad that he refuses to fly one defective plane, the company simply gets another pilot to take his place. Increasingly frustrated and worried about a potential crash, Pineyro finally writes an angry letter to his superiors, warning that a crash is inevitable if action isn't taken. The letter is leaked to the media, and the airline is sold, but the new owners want Pineyro to retract his statement. Complicating matters, their public relations person is Marcela (Mercedes Morán of The Motorcycle Diaries and The Holy Girl), a childhood crush that Pineyro never got over. She's since married, but that doesn't stop the divorced, embattled pilot from pursuing her. Pineyro's story is intercut with that of a government investigator (Alejandro Awada) looking into a LAPA crash, who starts receiving death threats. Whisky Romeo Zulu was shown by the Film Society of Lincoln Center as part of their 2004 Latinbeat Film Series. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Enrique Pineyro, Mercedes Morán, (more)
Argentinean filmmaker Daniel Burman writes and directs the ensemble film El Abrazo Partido (Lost Embrace), a follow-up to his 2000 feature Waiting for the Messiah. Daniel Hendler plays Ariel, a young man who lives in a Jewish working-class section of Buenos Aires. Since his father went missing in the war, his mother Sonia (Adriana Aizenberg) and brother Joseph (Sergio Boris) work in the shopping and business district. With no interest in school or work, Ariel hangs out and sleeps with Rita (Silvina Bosco). He finally gets the idea to move to Poland, so asks his grandmother (Rosita Londner), ex-girlfriend Estela (Melina Petriella), and Rabbi Benderson (Norman Erlich) for help. Meanwhile, a host of characters make up Ariel's multicultural neighborhood. Cesar Lerner provides the musical score. Lost Embrace won two Silver Bear awards at the Berlin Film Festival in 2004. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Daniel Hendler, Sergio Boris, (more)
Brazilian director Walter Salles Jr. follows up the Golden Globe-nominated Behind the Sun with this filmed adaptation of Argentinian-born Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara's journals of the same name. The Motorcycle Diaries stars Gael García Bernal (Y Tu Mamá También, Amores Perros) as a young, pre-revolution Guevara, a 23-year-old medical student in 1952 traveling across South America on a motorcycle with his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna), who co-wrote the source material. As they embark on their journey, both young men come of age and find their individual world views broadened farther than they ever expected. The Motorcycle Diaries premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, (more)
Ariel Rotter's deeply existential, Spanish-language ensemble drama Solo Por Hoy (AKA Only for Today, 2001) unfolds in urban Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the lives of numerous dissatisfied, ill-adjusted young people intersect in consistently surprising and disarming ways. Rotter focuses on videographer Moron, artist Aili, chef Equis, thespian Toro, and ne'er-do-well Fer. The story finds each individual struggling to surmount the limitations and daily setbacks that life dishes out, and that stand in the way of self-actualization and happiness. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Damián Dreyzik, Mariano Martinez, (more)
