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VAGÓN FUMADOR

SMOKERS ONLY
Veronica Chen
Argentinien 2001
87 min
V'05

Verónica Chens Vagón fumador is a lugubrious depiction of youth and love in Buenos Aires. Andrés is a 20-year-old taxi boy who sails through the night on roller blades when hes not having sex with men in cash machine vestibules. Reni, also 20, is a singer in a struggling punk band. They meet one evening when she forgets her bank card inside a cash machine. Together they prowl the streets of the city searching for truth and love among the hustlers and misfits. Shot almost entirely at night, Vagón fumador resembles a netherworld from which there is no escape. The cavernous boulevards and grand plazas of Buenos Aires take on a surreal quality in the dim glow of street lights, making the characters pursuit of lifes purpose seem a cruel joke. In this shadowy city, the only hope of escape is through illusion. (Cleo Cacoulidis)

Credits
  • Cecilia Bengolea - Reni
  • Leonardo Brzezicki - Andrés
  • Adrián Fondari - Kunde im Hotel
  • Pablo Razuk - Bandmanager
  • Fabián Talín - Kunde im Auto
  • Carlos Issa - Charly
  • Verónica Chen
  • Nicolás Theodossiou
  • Juan Pablo DiBitonto
  • Verónica Chen
  • Edgardo Rudnitzky
  • Julián D'Angiolillo
  • Julián D'Angiolillo
Ezeiza Films

Primer Plano Film Group Riobamba 477 1025 Buenos Aires, Argentinien T 11 43 73 76 81 internacional@primerplano.com

35 mm
bwcol
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