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Film about making of films
Martin is a fortyish physics professor. His mother just died and he is settling in the inherited family home with Jimena, his partner of many years. He is offered a plum job: a tenured professorship at the University. However, he is dissatisfied with the direction his life has taken, unsure about his relationship with Jimena and attracted by the moviemaking scene. He joins a cinema clinic/workshop. Members meet periodically and the objective is to plan a movie from the ground up; not even the subject has been decided. The group is loosely organized, although with some distribution of roles and responsibilities. The discussions are sometimes specific, sometimes rambling and unfocused.
Members are encouraged to come up with happenings in their own lives as possible subjects for the movie. Martin recalls an episode involving his mother, his aunt as a witness and Luz Belmondo, a recognized plastic artist. The episode ends with Martin's mother receiving the (apparently unmotivated) gift of a painting by Belmondo. It turned out to be Belmondo's last, since she disappeared from the art scene shortly after. The group takes up the anecdote and essays different versions. However, information surfaces that the version of the episode Martin remembers is incomplete/untrue and Martin confirms asking her aunt for details. The truth shakes to the core Martin's ideas of her mother and family and throws him in an abyss of confusion,
El último cuadro de Luz Belmondo = The Last Painting of Luz Belmondo is a product of a workshop directed by Alejandro Cozza, Inés Moyano and Rosendo Ruiz, in which a heterogeneous group of people (mostly without movie experience) developed the script and then participated in all aspects of the making of the film. The group was very similar to the one we see on screen and, in a sense, this movie lays bare the movie/by/workshow method used by the directors in this and other successful films like El Deportivo (2015) and Maturitá (2016). There is a hint of Godard in a few places, such as the anding and in scenes where we think we are watching the film but the camera moves and we are actually watching the film-within-the-film. All in all, a fascinating movie.
Members are encouraged to come up with happenings in their own lives as possible subjects for the movie. Martin recalls an episode involving his mother, his aunt as a witness and Luz Belmondo, a recognized plastic artist. The episode ends with Martin's mother receiving the (apparently unmotivated) gift of a painting by Belmondo. It turned out to be Belmondo's last, since she disappeared from the art scene shortly after. The group takes up the anecdote and essays different versions. However, information surfaces that the version of the episode Martin remembers is incomplete/untrue and Martin confirms asking her aunt for details. The truth shakes to the core Martin's ideas of her mother and family and throws him in an abyss of confusion,
El último cuadro de Luz Belmondo = The Last Painting of Luz Belmondo is a product of a workshop directed by Alejandro Cozza, Inés Moyano and Rosendo Ruiz, in which a heterogeneous group of people (mostly without movie experience) developed the script and then participated in all aspects of the making of the film. The group was very similar to the one we see on screen and, in a sense, this movie lays bare the movie/by/workshow method used by the directors in this and other successful films like El Deportivo (2015) and Maturitá (2016). There is a hint of Godard in a few places, such as the anding and in scenes where we think we are watching the film but the camera moves and we are actually watching the film-within-the-film. All in all, a fascinating movie.
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- Jan 17, 2023
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- Córdoba, Argentina(on location)
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- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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