| The Dark Side of the Heart | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Eliseo Subiela |
| Written by | Eliseo Subiela |
| Based on | Selected poems byOliverio Girondo Mario Benedetti Juan Gelman |
| Produced by | Suzanne Dussault Roger Frappier Susana Serebrenik Fernando Sokolowicz |
| Starring | Darío Grandinetti Sandra Ballesteros Nacha Guevara |
| Cinematography | Hugo Colace |
| Edited by | Marcela Sáenz |
| Music by | Mário Clavel Osvaldo Montes Chico Novarro Fito Páez |
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Running time | 127 minutes |
| Country | Argentina |
| Language | Spanish |
The Dark Side of the Heart (Spanish:El lado oscuro del corazón) is a 1992 Argentinesurrealistromanticdrama film written and directed byEliseo Subiela.[1] The film was selected as the Argentine entry for theBest Foreign Language Film at the65th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[2][3] It is currently considered acult film.[4]
Oliverio (Grandinetti), a Bohemian poet, travels through Buenos Aires with his friends, harassed by Death, looking for a woman capable of “flying”. In the course of the film, the poetry of Mario Benedetti, Juan Gelman and Oliverio Girondo is seen intermingled with the thickest places of Argentine and Uruguayan artistic daily life. From the barbecue, to the battered bars of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, the main character's thought is intermittently intertwined with fiction, only to be able to better show the central character's thinking.
The story unfolds in the comings and goings of Oliverio, through his world, in which, exchanging food for poetry, or asking for coins on street corners, seeing Mario Benedetti reciting his poems in German, seeing Genetic sculptures, talking to cows, and conversing with death seem to be part of any given day in the life of a poet.
Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival
Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences Awards
43rdBerlin International Film Festival
Cinoche International Film Festival of Baie-Comeau
Festival du film de Sept-Îles
Silver Condor, Argentine Film Critics Association
Sin Cortes Awards
Argentores Awards
A sequel titledThe Dark Side of the Heart 2 was released on July 5, 2001. A Spanish-Argentine co-production, it was again written and directed by Eliseo Subiela, withDarío Grandinetti andSandra Ballesteros reprising their roles from the original film. The supporting cast includesAriadna Gil,Manuel Bandera,Carolina Pelleritti andNacha Guevara.
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