Director
Alejandro Agresti
Composer
Paul M. van Brugge
Cast
Elio Marchi, Sergio Poves Campos, Carlos Roffé
Edition 1988
82'
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1987
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Drama
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Dialogue:
Spanish
A sincere, well-filmed filmic cry in the wilderness, this Love is a Fat Woman proves young helmer Agresti to have an Orson Wellesian taste for odd-angle shots, but also an eye for irony and humour which make palatable his story of a social misfit and loser who cannot come to grips with the complacency in his country and in the world. José is a kind of drifter and sometime journalist who can never simply draw the line at his assignments. When his editor asks him to cover a documentary on Argentina being filmed by some Yanks, José's ire bursts forth at what he considers to be the filmic exploitation of the poor. He tries to stop the lensing. Subsequently finding himself out of a job, out of bis boarding house and penniless, he seeks out old friends while ranting at the world's apathy. He still is
pining for a former flame , still 'missing' from the days of the dictatorship. (Besa. in Variety, 7.10.1987)
pining for a former flame , still 'missing' from the days of the dictatorship. (Besa. in Variety, 7.10.1987)
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Credits
Directors
Alejandro Agresti
Composers
Paul M. van Brugge
Cast
Elio Marchi, Sergio Poves Campos, Carlos Roffé
Scenario
Alejandro Agresti
Director of Photography
Alejandro Agresti
Editors
René Wiegmans
Producers
Liliana Cascante, Cesar Maidana
More info
Dialogue
Spanish
Countries of production
Argentina, The Netherlands
Year
1987