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LOS SALVAJES
Alejandro Fadel | Argentina | 2012 | 119min | color | Original version Spanish, French subtitles
FNC
Box office15 oct. 21:40Session 130
Cineplex Odéon Quartier Latin salle A
350 Rue Émery Métro Berri-UQAM
FNC
Box office17 oct. 17:30Session 165
Excentris Fellini
3536 boul. Saint-Laurent Métro Saint-Laurent
Synopsis :
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
ACID prize (Cannes Film Festival)
« …un premier film magistral… n’est pas sans évoquer les grands westerns des années 1970 — des chefs d’oeuvres de Sam Peckinpah à John McCabe de Robert Altman, ou encore au Missouri Breaks d’Arthur Penn… » — Radio France International
Five teenage prisoners escape from a remote detention centre. Fending for themselves in the wilderness of the pampas, they set out in search of a fabled location “seven days’ walk from the city,” where they believe their salvation lies with the mysterious outlaw known as the Godfather. Their quest becomes increasingly desperate and the youths end up irrevocably lost. Quietly and inevitably, death begins preying on them one by one...
Argentine director Alejandro Fadel, screenwriter for Pablo Trapero’s Carancho, delivers far more than a simple study of youth reduced to savagery: Los Salvajes is a masterful achievement mixing off-beat Western, existential fable and fantasy story. The wild beauty of the landscape and the inherent violence of the tribe traversing it are both rendered larger than life. Like Terence Malick’s BadlandsV re-imagined through the lens of magic realism, Los Salvajes is an enigmatic and agonizingly quiet film where nothing is ever as it seems.
ACID prize (Cannes Film Festival)
« …un premier film magistral… n’est pas sans évoquer les grands westerns des années 1970 — des chefs d’oeuvres de Sam Peckinpah à John McCabe de Robert Altman, ou encore au Missouri Breaks d’Arthur Penn… » — Radio France International
Five teenage prisoners escape from a remote detention centre. Fending for themselves in the wilderness of the pampas, they set out in search of a fabled location “seven days’ walk from the city,” where they believe their salvation lies with the mysterious outlaw known as the Godfather. Their quest becomes increasingly desperate and the youths end up irrevocably lost. Quietly and inevitably, death begins preying on them one by one...
Argentine director Alejandro Fadel, screenwriter for Pablo Trapero’s Carancho, delivers far more than a simple study of youth reduced to savagery: Los Salvajes is a masterful achievement mixing off-beat Western, existential fable and fantasy story. The wild beauty of the landscape and the inherent violence of the tribe traversing it are both rendered larger than life. Like Terence Malick’s BadlandsV re-imagined through the lens of magic realism, Los Salvajes is an enigmatic and agonizingly quiet film where nothing is ever as it seems.
