A King and His Movie (1986)

Original title

La película del rey

Directed by

Carlos Sorín

Genre

drama film, comedy film, comedy drama

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker in Argentina attempts to make a movie about a 19th century French king. The production grows increasingly chaotic as the director struggles with budget problems and uncooperative actors.

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What happens

A King and His Movie (Spanish: La película del rey) is a 1986 Argentine comedy drama film, directed by Carlos Sorín, and written by Sorín and Jorge Goldenberg. The movie features Ulises Dumont and Julio Chávez, among others. In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 15th position. In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 30th position. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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