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Suddenly

Tan de repente

Argentina, Netherlands

2002

94 Min
Black and White
1.85:1
Spanish
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DIR Diego Lerman

PROD Diego Lerman, Sebastián Ariel, Nicolás Martínez Zemborain, Lita Stantic

SCR César Aira, Diego Lerman, María Meira, Eloisa Solaas

DP Diego del Piano, Luciano Zito

CAST Carla Crespo, Veronica Hassan, Tatiana Saphir, Marcos Ferrante, María Merlino, Beatriz Thibaudin, Ana María Martínez, Susana Pampín, Luis Herrera

ED Benjamín Ávila, Alberto Ponce, Roli Rauwolf

MUSIC Juan Ignacio Bouscayrol, Murciélago

BAFICI: Audience Award, Special Award, SIGNIS Award - Special Mention, Locarno (International Competition): Silver Leopard, Don Quixote Award, Special Mention, Rotterdam (Hubert Bals Fund), Outfest (Features), Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), Karlovy Vary (Horizons)

Synopsis

The film begins as Marcia (Tatiana Saphir), a frumpy and overweight salesgirl who seems to lead a banal and dreary existence, goes to work one day. As she walks she catches the eye of a feisty butch punk woman named Mao (Carla Crespo) who tells Marcia she wants to seduce her. Marcia tells Mao that she’s not a lesbian, but Mao is relentless. With the help of her friend Lenin (Veronica Hassan), Mao manages to talk Marcia into getting into a cab that the two lesbian women then immediately car-jack. They take Marcia to the coast to see the ocean—which she has never seen before—before ending up at Lenin’s Aunt Blanca’s (Beatriz Thibaudin) house. Lenin has not seen Aunt Blanca for nine years, and they discover Blanca rents out rooms to two lodgers. Blanca proves fascinating to Lenin and the two begin redeveloping a connection. Lenin confesses that she has not spoken to her mother in three years. When they are alone Mao makes love to Marcia, then leaves her alone. We learn that Marcia is quite lonely since her boyfriend recently dumped her. She feels abandoned by everyone. Marcia, Mao, Lenin, and Blanca all affect each other in unexpected ways, and as a consequence, develop new relationships that each of the women had lacked in their lives.—wikipedia

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sleptember

28Oct12

Incredible. To me, an important film. Very cool, poetic, and moving.

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Christofer Pierson

13Jan12

A bit of Godard, Blier, Bunuel and Lynch. A lot of sophisticated energy. Deserves to be better known.

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