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SFFILM Festival

The Reconstruction

Directed by Juan Taratuto

Argentina | 93

30 Apr
Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 4:00 pm PT

Description

Along a wintry highway, a close-up shot reveals a startling landscape: that of a man’s face, ravaged by who knows what cares, inward and unmoved even as he drives by a woman in distress on the side of the road. Taciturn is too kind (and too long) a word to describe Eduardo (Diego Peretti), an oilfield engineer, whose response to a dinner invitation from a coworker is “Why?” and whose more typical mode of communication is a forbidding silence. Nevertheless, Eduardo reluctantly embarks on a short trip to Patagonia at the request of old friend, Mario. In Ushuaia, the world’s southernmost city, the loner looks in as a stranger would on Mario’s middle-class home, a hive of dailiness and love. Then death enters, pulling rough-hewn Eduardo over the threshold and into the life of a suddenly bereft family who hardly know what to do with him. The Reconstruction’s beauty is in its challenge: to make an asocial character human. As in Bresson, empathy comes through the smallest revelations. Pay close attention to them, as the director Juan Taratuto and his star Peretti have so skillfully done. Each character in this fine ensemble contributes to the others’ redemption. In this way, love proves transmutable. –Judy Bloch

Director Juan Taratuto

Director-writer Juan Taratuto, born in 1971 in Buenos Aires, and actor Diego Peretti have previously teamed on award-winning comedies in the Woody Allen vein—It’s Not You, It’s Me and Who Says It’s Easy?—leading The Hollywood Reporter to comment, “Changes in directorial direction are rarely as radical as Juan Taratuto’s direct, emotionally searching The Reconstruction.”

Trailer

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Film Details

Language Spanish

Original Language Title La reconstrucción

Year 2013

Runtime 93

Country Argentina

Director Juan Taratuto

Producer Dolores Llosas, Juan Taratuto, Christian Cardoner, Mariano Gold, Mariano Suez, Axel Kuschevatzky

Writer Juan Taratuto

Editor Pablo Barbieri

Cinematographer Nico Hardy

Music Ivan Wyszogrod

Cast Diego Peretti, Alfredo Casero, Claudia Fontán