Film info: Música campesina

Film Information

Original Title	Música campesina
English Title	Country Music
Director	Alberto Fuguet
Countrys
Year	2011
Format	HD
Colour	Color
Duration	100 min

Cast:

Pablo Cerda, James Cathcart, Cole Kinnear, Ezra Fitz, Karen Davidovich Whitehouse

Production:

Guión: Alberto Fuguet
Fotografía: Ashley Zeigler
Montaje: Sebastián Arriagada
Produccion: Alberto Fuguet, Ted Fischer, Sarah Childress, Mauricio Varela

Synopsis

Chilean Alejandro Tazo (Pablo Cerda) travels to Nashville, United States, following a love interest. But he will realize things aren’t so easy, predictable, or linear (neither does the film inform us of all that in this particular order), and that being a foreigner carries a certain degree of alienation. Also that defining yourself as a Johnny Cash fan is like confessing you breathe oxygen. Also that speaking other people’s language can be very tiring. After making the lead character (also played Pablo Cerda) move around Santiago on a bycicle in Velódromo (screened at Bafici 2010) Fuguet now holds him down him in the city of country music. However, for the Chilean writer and director, that immobility doesn’t imply a narrative immobilization. Tazo wants to work, meet people, make his trip worthwhile. Música campesina is a film by a narrator who also knows how to stage –through brilliant dialogues– conflicts and feelings. Fuguet is someone for whom dialogue writing is a key to build his own voice as an independent filmmaker, with an accent on that description’s adjective, but also on its noun.