Crane World

Mundo grúa

Argentina

1999

90 Min

Color, Black and White

1.66:1

Spanish

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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PROD Lita Stantic, Pablo Trapero

CAST Luis Margani, Adriana Aizemberg, Daniel Valenzuela, Rolly Serrano, Graciana Chironi, Federico Esquerro, Alfonso Rementería, Alejandro Zucco

SOUND Federico Esquerro, Catriel Vildosola

Rotterdam (Competition): Tiger Award, FIPRESCI Prize, Venice, Edinburgh, Toronto (City to City)

Synopsis

Pablo Trapero’s excitingly original feature debut has the authenticity associated with 1950s Italian Neo Realism. The protagonist in this clear-eyed tale of contemporary working class life in Argentina is beer-bellied, fiftyish, un-employed Rulo. A former local one-hit rock-star, his ambitions are now set to become a crane operator, but his modest dream of employment on a Buenos Aires construction site is soon derailed. Despite a budding romance with the local kiosk owner, Rulo’s financial responsibilities to his mother and his grown son drive him to take a job far away in Patagonia. In a totally convincing performance (by Luis Margani, leading a cast of non-professionals), warm and likeable Rulo makes us believe that he, as well as the Argentine economy, can revive and start all over again and yet again. —Film Society of Lincoln Center

Director

Pablo Trapero

Pablo Trapero was born in Buenos Aires in 1971. His feature films are Mundo Grúa (1999), shown at Venezia (Critics Award), and El bonaerense (2002), which was presented at the Festival de Cannes 2002 in Un Certain Regard. He also directed Naikor, a short film premiered in 2001, and Sarasa, a documentary for television (2002). In 2002 he created Matanza Cine, an independent film production company, which produced La libertad by Lisandro Alonso, Ciudad de Maria by Enrique Bellande and La mecha by Raul Perrone. –Cannes