La vuelta al nido (1938)

Directed by

Leopoldo Torres Ríos

Genre

psychological drama film

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 17m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film focuses on the inner lives of its characters rather than action or dialogue. It tells the story of people dealing with their personal struggles and relationships in a quiet, psychological way.

slow-burnintimatepsychologicalmelancholicpoeticunderstatedcontemplativesomber

What happens

La vuelta al nido (English: Return to the Nest) is a 1938 Argentine psychological drama film written and directed by Leopoldo Torres Ríos and starring José Gola and Amelia Bence. It was the first major work of Torres Ríos and the first production of Estudios E.F.A. (Establecimientos Filmadores Argentinos), founded by producers Adolfo Z. Wilson and Julio Joly in partnership with exhibitor Clemente Lococo. However, the film remained shelved for nine months due to rejection by exhibitors and critics who deemed it "uncommercial," and E.F.A. even released Adiós Buenos Aires—also directed by Torres Ríos and filmed later—before La vuelta al nido. Unlike the more commercially successful films that dominated the early years of the Golden Age of Argentine cinema, La vuelta al nido was distinguished by its poetic and intimate style, focusing on the psychology of its characters over action or dialogue. After several months of difficulties and debates about its commercial value, the film finally premiered on 4 May 1938 at the Cine Monumental in Buenos Aires. It was a resounding commercial and critical failure due to its slow pace, with the notable exception of the influential critic Calki of El Mundo, whose backing proved fundamental to the film's eventual release and who devoted several columns to praising it as the inauguration of a new style within Argentine cinema. Torres Ríos was accused of "dirtying the celluloid" and took the failure very badly; the blow affected his reputation for a couple of years, and the films he made in the following period were markedly commercial in style. The film began to be reassessed in the 1950s and 1960s, championed by the young critics of the Cine Club Núcleo and the journal Tiempo de Cine, who recognized it as a precursor of the cinema of the so-called "generation of the '60s". Today it is recognized as a classic of Argentine cinema, the masterpiece of Torres Ríos, and a film ahead of its time, with an experimental style that anticipates auteur cinema and cinematic modernity. It has been considered one of the greatest Argentine films of all time on several occasions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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