Querelle Delage

Second feature film from the Higher Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (ISCAA).

A version of El Estatola del Campo's poetic Faust of the Poet (1886) integrates the major trilogy of Argentine gaucho poetry, is proposed here in a faithful version and integral.

Joaquin likes to hang around with friends, smoke pot and watch films. One night, Josefine stays with him and they have sex. The next day she is gone, leaving blood in the bathtub. After that, strange things start to happen to Joaquin. A fortune teller tells him the shocking truth. A daring, scary and disorienting debut with a fresh voice and a stoner sense of humour.

L'histoire cauchemardesque de deux frères et sœurs cruellement séparés dans leur enfance. La plus jeune, Elena, est confinée dans le monde des ténèbres, où elle mène une vie misérable. Tandis que l'aîné, Facundo, reste au paradis, où il mène une vie paisible de médecin avec sa femme et ses deux filles.

The universe of Argentine independent cinema. The imposture. The unfulfilled dreams. Confinement—the capability for irony, the skill for comedy and the sagacity of UPA! Una película argentina (2007) are back, renovated, to explore the whims of a microworld still in turmoil.