Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (1998)

Original title

Pizza, birra, faso

Directed by

Bruno Stagnaro, Adrián Caetano

Genre

drama film

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 64 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of poor teenagers in Buenos Aires commit small robberies to survive. They hang out on the streets and face the harsh realities of life.

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What happens

Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (Spanish: Pizza, birra, faso; also known as Pizza, Beer & Smokes) is a 1998 Argentine crime drama film written and directed by Israel Adrián Caetano and Bruno Stagnaro and starring Héctor Anglada, Jorge Sesan and Pamela Jordán. The film tells the story of a gang of marginalized adolescents who survive on the streets of Buenos Aires carrying out low-level robberies. Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes is the film that's known as "the spark that ignited the New Argentine Cinema when it premiered at the international Mar del Plata Film Festival." It was filmed entirely in Buenos Aires. 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 10th 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 8th position. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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