Four independent short stories but they have in common that they happen in Buenos Aires during legislative elections. A candidate for deputy, Carlos Celestini floods the city with his image and can be seen in each of the stories.
Direction
Four distinct voices, one suffocating political atmosphere.
Writing
Celestini as haunting background noise to ordinary tragedy.
Director
Nicolás Saad
Pablo Vega
Oscar (segment "La Querencia")
Daniel Valenzuela
Omar (segment "Vida y obra")
Diego Peretti
Antonio (segment "Compañeros")
Virginia Innocenti
Carmen (segment "Compañeros")
Héctor Anglada
Pibe (segment "Vida y obra")
Florencia Bertotti
Connie (segment "Está todo mal")
Martín Adjemián
Luque (segment "Vida y obra")
Carlos Roffé
Carlos Brochato (segment "Vida y obra")
Roly Serrano
Gutiérrez (segment "Vida y obra")
Marita Ballesteros
Santiago's Mother (segment "Está todo mal")
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Argentina's 1998 economic freefall, the film captures pre-crisis political cynicism that would explode into the 2001 corralito.
Each director took one social class—working poor, petit bourgeois, intellectuals, political machine—creating an accidental class taxonomy of Buenos Aires.
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