Cuchillo de palo

BAFICI 2010
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Film Information:
Year:

2010

108
Países:

  
Director:

Renate Costa
Color:

Color
Format:

HD
Duration:

95 min

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Renate Costa
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Carlos Vasquez
  • MONTAJE: Nuria Esquerra
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Marta Andreu

Contact:

  • Contacto / Contact
  • Umedia
  • Clément Duboin
  • 14 rue du 18 Août
  • 93100 Montreuil, France
  • T +33 1 4870 7318
  • +33 6 7549 8872
  • F +33 1 4972 0421
  • E clement@umedia.fr
  • www.umedia.fr
  • www.cuchillodepalo.net

Synopsis

In Cuchillo de palo, Paraguayan filmmaker Renate Costa makes several portraits: of his uncle Rodolfo; of her family (specially her father); of the repression of homosexuals during Alfredo Stroessner’s regime; and of the fear and prejudices still rooted down in Paraguayan society. Even if we can see the filmmaker leading the interviews, the first person is only a faint enunciation mark set within a context of modesty, respect, and the right distance to her own family’s story. Uncle Rodolfo was persecuted, incarcerated, and repressed; he was also one of the gay people included in “the 108”, a list that would turn the number itself into a stigma. Rodolfo, as it is told in the film, died of sadness. With singular sensibility, concision and rigor, Costa makes a really opened political and personal film –the interviews with her father Pedro and the description of a wake create a particular impact– which moves the spectator using the finest of resources.

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