Rent La Leon (2006)
3.4 of 5 from 64 ratings
1h 19min
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- Synopsis:
This visually stunning directorial debut is set in the watery Parana delta of northern Argentina. There, violent El Turu is captain of a water bus that links the isolated communities of traditional reed-cutters. One of the workers, Alvaro, is a quiet gay man whose love of books makes him as much an outsider as his sexuality. Is also makes him the perfect target for El Turu's hostility. The misty waterways and solitary lives are beautifully evoked through shimmering black and white photography. The film won a special teddy award at the 2007 Berlin film festival. La Leon is the fifth film in the soda viva collection, an initiative between Manchester’s annual viva Spanish and Latin American film festival and UK independent film distributor soda pictures. The collection will release the best of Spanish language feature films on DVD - Actors:
- Daniel Valenzuela, Jorge Román, José Muñoz, Juan Carlos Rivas, Mirta Duran Rivas, Esteban Gonzalez
- Directors:
- Santiago Otheguy
- Studio:
- Soda Pictures
- Genres:
- Drama
- Collections:
- A World of Difference: A History of Gay Cinema
- Countries:
- Argentina
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Reviews (1) of La Leon
Satisfyingly slow and carefully paced film - La Leon review by TE
One of the pleasures of 'World' cinema is the insight it often affords into little known areas of the planet. Here the narrative is set in the watery estuary lands of the thinly populated north of Argentina.
It's a hard-scrabble life and the central character, Alvaro, is isolated by his sexuality and by his love of books. From the outset his persona is threatened by the macho, racist El Turu.
We see a series of vignettes of life on the small island, all shot in a slightly misty grey-and-white. Many of the lingering shots are very beautiful, but there is an air of mounting menace that the director, Santiago Otheguy, maintains very well.
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