A Chrysanthemum Bursts in Cincoesquinas (1998)

Original title

Un crisantemo estalla en cinco esquinas

Directed by

Daniel Burman

Genre

drama film

Country

Argentina, France, Spain

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man navigates love and family ties in a Buenos Aires neighborhood. He gets involved with a woman and her eccentric relatives.

lightheartedquirkymelancholic undertonebittersweetslow-pacedintrospectiveoffbeatcharacter-driven

What happens

Un crisantemo estalla en cinco esquinas (English: A Chrysanthemum Bursts in Cincoesquinas) is a 1998 Argentine, Brazilian, French, and Spanish comedy-drama film written and directed by Daniel Burman, in feature film debut. It was produced by Diego Dubcovsky. It stars José Luis Alfonzo, Pastora Vega and Martin Kalwill, among others. Film critic Anthony Kaufman, writing for indieWIRE, said the film has been cited as the beginning of the "New Argentine Cinema" wave. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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