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La Puta Y La Ballena
''The Whore and the Whale'' (''La puta y la ballena'') is a 2004 Spain, Hispano-Argentina, Argentine drama film directed by Luis Puenzo. The film tells the interwoven stories of a Spanish writer whose life goes through various crises and an Argentine photographer who rescued a prostitute from a brothel in the far south of Patagonia but lost her and then died in the Spanish Civil War. Plot Vera, a writer in present-day Spain, is commissioned to write a book about Emilio, an Argentine photographer who was killed in the fighting in Barcelona in 1939. She feels lost, unable to live with her husband and young son and suspecting she is ill. To find out more about Emilio, on an impulse she flies alone to Buenos Aires, where she is hospitalised and undergoes a mastectomy. Dying in the bed next to her is a very old woman called Matilde, who is visited by her divorced grandson Ernesto. He takes the recovering Vera to clear out his grandmother's house, where it emerges that the young Matild ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Puenzo
Luis Adalberto Puenzo (born 19 February 1946) is an Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina, but has also worked in the United States. Biography Puenzo was born in Buenos Aires in 1946. He began a successful career in 1965 producing television advertising spots in Argentina. He founded Luis Puenzo Cinema, a production company, with Sergio Tamburri (film editor and trombone player of the famous Porteña Jazz Band); the firm's name was changed to Cinemanía S.A. in 1974. During Argentina's Civic-military dictatorship of Argentina in the mid 1970s and early 1980s many filmmakers became victims of repression and some went into exile; some disappeared. During this difficult time, Puenzo decided to work in advertising. In the United States he is known for his film '' Old Gringo'' (1989), starring Gregory Peck, Jane Fonda and Jimmy Smits. His film ''The Official Story'' (1985) won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |