The Distinguished Citizen (2015)

Original title

El ciudadano ilustre

Directed by

Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Argentina, Spain

Runtime

2h

Rated

12

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 283 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Nobel Prize winning novelist returns to his hometown in Argentina after decades abroad. He finds the people and places have changed in ways that challenge his memories and his fame.

dryly comicsatiricaluncomfortablethoughtfulwryslow-burncynical

What happens

The Distinguished Citizen (Spanish: El ciudadano ilustre) is a 2016 comedy-drama film directed by Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. At Venice Oscar Martínez won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. It was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. It won Best Ibero-American Film at the 4th Platino Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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