Movies: Raúl Perrone

This night, Ituzaingó, in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, exudes film and theater. Actors, actresses, directors, and producers parade like narcissuses of the underground in a world of jealousy, hypocrisy, idiocy, and so much more....

Raúl Perrone does not usually allow people to register his work. It represents an act of intimacy. However, Martín earns his trust and is allowed to take part in the shooting. Perrone's process of filmmaking becomes a testimony of both his role as a ...

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A trip of three friends to San Bernardo....

I decided a long time ago not to do any more synopses of my films. I want people to arrive without knowing what they are going to watch. There won't be a trailer either – they're liars AND they never really reflect the spirit of the film. Thanks fo...

Apocryphal documentary about a supposed visit by James Dean to film a movie in Ituzaingó, a suburban town in Argentina near Buenos Aires....

A reworking of Waiting for Godot where two losers (Coco and Peluca) are waiting in an amusement park abandoned to a former occasional boss (Godotti) who owes them a small amount of money....

Fixed open shots are the main resources used to follow a love relationship and the many moments when this liaison between two women – 22 and 24 years old – is recomposed....

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Luján was a construction worker. He had fourteen children, some of whom he no longer remembers the name of. It is separate. A neighbor, Liliana, gives him a house and food, in exchange for work. One of his children claims him, but he does not want to...

Edgardo Cozarinsky was The Marqués of Sade for a couple of hours. It happened in a Raúl Perrone movie…...

A teenager's trip to spend the spring day, the problems a man has with his wife and her lover, evangelists preaching the word of God....

In this film, which takes place for the most part inside a house that seems to be isolated from any contemporaneity, except for the news coming from television and the ringing of cell phones, Perrone shows the routines of his characters as rites of s...

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Perrone asks the young people he always shoots to be the cameramen on his movie; on that record he will organize the fragments of life snatched from time and add diverse sound layers....

Perrone’s devotion to Pasolini has always been very clear. But the explicit homages in P3nd3jo5 and Ragazzi apparently weren’t enough: now a lookalike of the Italian director has turned up in Ituizangó....

A film-maker in a poor town in Argentina is working on a film which is split into three chapters in the tradition of jidaigeki, the old Japanese swordfight films. In the first part, a samurai murders the son of a brothel owner and the father swears r...

An enchanted and dangerous jungle. A woman and her husband. A young boy and a teenaged girl who look like brother and sister. Another girl and two men from another time. Gunshots. An escape. A cascade and a storm. Love. Passion. Death....

A portrait of Nicéforo Galván's house after his death....

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