Silvia Prieto

Argentina

1999

92 Min

Color

1.66:1

Spanish

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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PROD Martín Rejtman, Anahí Berneri, Mónica Bolan, Sandra Flomenbaum, Fernando Moledo, María Ntaca, Samuel Oliva, Ana Petierbarg, Paula Zyngierman

CAST Rosario Bléfari, Gabriel Fernandez Capello, Mirta Busnelli, Valeria Bertuccelli, Marcelo Zanelli, Susana Pampín, Vicentico, Luis Mancini, Abain Vain

PROD DES Rodrigo Moscoso, Alejandra Seeber, Adriana Sandra Laham, Sebastián Orgambide

SOUND Alejandro Seba, Jesica Suárez, Catriel Vildosola

Berlinale (Forum), BAFICI, Karlovy Vary (Forum of Independents)

Synopsis

A minimalist deadpan comedy involving drifting characters and objects, this film focuses on Silvia Prieto, a rather unexceptional young woman who on her 27th birthday resolves to make some changes in her life — changes that bring out a few eccentricities. When she discovers that there are other women who share her name, she develops a bizarre obsession with the “other” Silvia Prieto, an obsession that involves unraveling the riddle of her own identity. Silvia Prieto is a meditation on what it means, or doesn’t mean, to be yourself. —Anthology Film Archives

Director

Martín Rejtman

Martín Rejtman (born 1961 in Buenos Aires) is an award winning Argentine film producer, film director, and screenplay writer. He works in the cinema of Argentina.

Rejtman studied filmmaking at New York University, where he had to make one short per week and had to shoot with what was available.

At NYU he established a mode of production embraced by many other young Argentine filmmakers, both before and since: that is, the art of working with a small budget.

Rejtman uses a minimalist style when making films. He said, “When I made Rapado, I felt that Argentine cinema had too much dialogue, and bad dialogue at that. I hate adornments, I hate artifice, I hate anything that’s unnecessary, because there really is nothing beyond the screen.”

Films As Director

Doli vuelve a casa (1986) (short)
Sistema español (1988) (short)
Rapado (1992)
Silvia Prieto (1999)
Los guantes mágicos (2003… read more