The House of the Angel (1957)

Original title

La casa del ángel

Directed by

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

Genre

drama film, coming-of-age film

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 18m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl from a wealthy Argentine family navigates her strict upbringing and the oppressive codes of her society. The story follows her coming of age in a rigid household dominated by powerful men.

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What happens

The House of the Angel (Spanish: La casa del ángel) is a 1957 Argentine drama film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson based the novel of the same name by his wife Beatriz Guido, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film was entered into the 10th Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or prize. The film is considered a turning point in the history of Argentine cinema, as its international success contributed to the development of more national productions. It was selected as the second greatest Argentine film of all time in a poll conducted by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 1977, while it ranked 6th in the 1984 edition and 10th in the 2000 edition. In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida util, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 22 position. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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