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84 min | Argentina/France | 35 mm
main programme
credits
PROD: Gregorio Cramer, TS Productions
SALES: Art Box Productions
SCENARIO: Matias Oks, Gregorio Cramer i.a.w. Marcelo Cohen
CAMERA: Victor Gonz�lez
EDITOR: Ana Poliak
ARTDIR: Giselle Peisojovich
SOUND: Anne-Marie Leduc
MUSIC: Diego Clemente
CAST: Ricardo Bartis, Miguel Guerberoff, Susana Szperling, Gabriel Correa, Luis Ziembrosky Garrafa
screenings
29 friday 14:30 Filmcentrum Poelestraat 2
31 sunday 16:30 Venster 2
02 tuesday 20:00 Venster 4
03 wednesday 14:15 Path� 4
06 saturday 13:00 Maastricht Path� 1
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The end of the world is called Patagonia, in the deep South of Argentina: a place unfriendly to humans, ruled by an unremitting and stormy wind, which is nevertheless filled with myths. Valdivia looks after himself and his need for drink with all kinds of odd jobs and petty crime. He is about to steal a car when he is surprised by the female owner. A strange relationship develops with this woman, a swimming teacher who works in a bar at night. Valdivia, who is used to failure, dreams of a golden sheep that he has lost, some way or another. Then he receives a call from the mysterious se�or Ramenfort, who orders him to go looking for such a sheep. Thisis the start of Valdivia's journey to nowhere. His quest, independent of the whys and wherefores, seems to have become the only meaningful element in his life. Marked by disaster, he doesn't want to give up but is in danger of losing himself in an endless landscape with its absurd paths... In his feature d�but filled with bizarre humour, Gregorio Cramer balances skilfully on the brink between appearance and reality. With a fine sense of cinematographic rhythm and mood, he tells a story filled with profounder layers of meaning about kleptomania, friendship, love, loneliness and the need to have a dream. One of the most striking contributions by the latest generation of Argentinian film-makers.
Gregorio Cramer
Gregorio Cramer (Buenos Aires, 1970) worked from the age of seventeen in the film industry. He studied film in Buenos Aires and New York. Invierno mala vida is his first feature.
films
Trailer (1990, short), Time Out (1992, short), R.I.P. an April Sonata (1992, short), Tiempos Muertos (1992, short), Estudio para un autorretrato (1992, short), Refugio en la ciudad (1994, short), Al cielo, no (1997, short), Invierno mala vida (1997)
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