Sur (1988)

Directed by

Fernando Solanas

Genre

drama film

Country

Argentina, France

Runtime

2h 09m

Rated

+18

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man returns to his home in Buenos Aires after being imprisoned for years. He wanders the city at night, encountering memories and people from his past.

slow-burnmelancholicintrospectivesomberemotionalnostalgicpoeticreflective

What happens

Sur (South) is a 1988 Argentine drama film written and directed by Fernando E. Solanas. The film features Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, Philippe Léotard, Lito Cruz, Ulises Dumont among others. Following its debut at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, Sur collected a host of awards from prestigious international film festivals. Sur garnered its director, Fernando E. Solanas the Best Director at Cannes in 1988 and was nominated for the Palme d'Or in the same year. The film was selected to be screened in the Cannes Classics section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. 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 33rd 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 40th position. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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