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ENTRE MARX Y UNA MUJER DESNUDA - Sinopsis abreviada / Brief synopsis
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ENTRE MARX Y UNA MUJER DESNUDA - SINOPSIS
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El centro de la película es "el Autor", llamado así porque lo que el espectador ve es el resultado de su empeño en escribir un libro sobre sí mismo, sus amigos, su amor platónico por Rosana, y su militancia en un Partido de izquierda durante la década de los años sesenta. El Autor se rodea de una serie de diversos y a veces absurdos personajes, y nunca queda totalmente claro si los personajes son "reales" o si el Autor simplemente los inventó. Galo Gálvez, por ejemplo, el carismático activista del Partido que mantiene una apasionada relación con Margaramaría, vive confinado a una silla de ruedas. Pero por suerte siempre está Falcón, su amigo y sirviente fiel, quien lo ha cargado sobre sus espaldas desde la niñez cuando ha sido necesario. La película entremezcla escenas realistas con escenas de sueños sensuales y extraños episodios. Hasta que el Autor es sobrepasado por su intenso contexto emocional y tiene que admitir, en un diálogo confidencial con Carlos Marx, que él está un poco confundido y que es incapaz de diferenciar la verdad de la ficción. Al final, seguramente él no será el único en sentir esta experiencia, porque para el director Camilo Luzuriaga la confusión, y no la certeza, era la característica fundamental de aquellos tiempos cuando los intelectuales ecuatorianos creyeron que la revolución estaba a la vuelta de la esquina. Camilo Luzuriaga nació en 1953 al sur del Ecuador y se inició como actor de teatro y foto fija a los 17 años. Desde 1973 filmó sus primeros cortometrajes en Súper-8 y desde 1981 realizó varios en 16 mm., entre ellos "Chacón Maravilla", Mejor Película para niños en el Festival de Tampere, Finlandia. En 1990 estrenó "La Tigra", su primer largometraje de ficción, Mejor Película y Mejor Opera Prima en el Festival de Cartagena y el mayor éxito de taquilla en el Ecuador en aquel año. En 1996 estrenó "Entre Marx y una mujer desnuda", su segundo largometraje. |
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BETWEEN MARX AND A NAKED WOMAN - SYNOPSIS
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The center of the film is "the Author", as the character is known in the movie, because what the audience sees is the result of his effort in writing a book about himself, his friends, his platonic love for Rosana, and their activism in a left wing party during the sixties in Ecuador. The Author is surrounded by a series of different and sometimes absurd characters, and it never becomes fully transparent whether his characters are "real" or whether the author has merely invented them. Galo Gálvez, for example, the charismatic Party activist who maintains a passionate relationship with Margaramaría, lives confined to a wheelchair. But luckily there is always Falcon, his faithful friend and servant, who has carried him on his back since his childhood whenever it has been necessary. The film interweaves realist sequences with sensuous dream sequences and bizarre episodes, until the Author is overwhelmed by his intense and emotional surroundings and has to admit, during a confidential chat with Karl Marx, that he is slightly confused and unable to tell "fact from fiction". In the end, he surely won't remain the only one to have this experience, because for Director Camilo Luzuriaga confusion, and not certainty, was the main characteristic of those years when Ecuadorian intellectuals believed that revolution was around the corner. Camilo Luzuriaga born in 1953 in the south of Ecuador, Camilo Luzuriaga started as a stage actor and still photographer when he was 17. Since 1973 he shot his first Super-8 films and since 1981 he shot various short films in 16 mm., among them "Wonder Chacón", Best Children's Film at the Tampere Film Festival, Finland. In 1990 he premiered his first long feature film, "La Tigra", Best Film and Best Opera Prima at the Cartagena Film Festival and the highest box office success in Ecuador that year. In 1996 he premiered "Between Marx and a naked woman", his second full length feature. |
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ENTRE MARX Y UNA MUJER DESNUDA - Premios y distinciones
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Mannheim Biarritz Belgrado Rotterdam Nueva York La Habana Seattle Chicago Montevideo Mar del Plata Londres Augsburgo Calcuta Friburgo Lérida Nueva Delhi Gotenburgo AFI Los Angeles Hong Kong Dallas Cartagena Boston Providence |
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BETWEEN MARX AND A NAKED WOMAN - Prizes and nominations
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ENTRE MARX Y UNA MUJER DESNUDA - Algunos comentarios de prensa (primera parte)
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"Una de las mayores sorpresas del festival es esta centelleante, inventiva y sofisticada, hermosamente hecha película procedente del diminuto Ecuador... llena de sentido, energía, pasión, inteligencia, alto estilo y personajes memorables... la cinta es ampliamente creativa y graciosa" Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune "Con humor y delicadeza... el continuo uso de recuerdos y elementos oníricos permite al director lograr el ritmo y contenido del film. Luzuriaga ha encontrado el justo equilibrio entre presente y pasado, sin perder de vista el conjunto" L. Ghi, Corriere del Ticino "¿Ha visto una película ecuatoriana últimamente? No lo creo, porque su industria cinematográfica es tal vez la más pequeña de América Latina, y sin embargo ha producido ya al menos un cineasta de clase mundial en Camilo Luzuriaga. Después de tan sólo dos películas... ha establecido una voz única, humorística, sensual, fantástica, tanto como realista y satírica" Michael Jeck, American Film Institute Preview, Wáshington "A la manera de un virtuoso, Luzuriaga juega con diferentes niveles narrativos... dibuja un imponente panorama que tiene poco en común con las estructuras narrativas convencionales, y que es una reminiscencia del realismo mágico de autores latinoamericanos como García Márquez." Frank Schnelle, F. News, Mannheim, Alemania "Si un libro nos gana en las relecturas, con una película no ocurre diferente: ENTRE MARX Y UNA MUJER DESNUDA es filme para rato. Para múltiples lecturas" Cecilia Ansaldo, El Telégrafo, Guayaquil "Junto a películas codificadas, algunas sobresalen, brillantes, como ENTRE MARX Y UNA MUJER DESNUDA de Camilo Luzuriaga" Ange-Dominique Bouzet, Liberation, París |
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BETWEEN MARX AND A NAKED WOMAN - Some press reviews (first part)
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"One of the fest's major surprises is this startlingly inventive and sophisticated, beautifully done film from tiny Ecuador... packed with wit, energy, passion, intelligence, high style and memorable characters... the movie is wildly creative and funny" Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune "In a virtuoso manner, Luzuriaga plays with different narrative levels, he sketches an imposing panorama that has little in common with conventional narrative structures, but is reminiscent of the magic realism of Latin American authors like García Márquez." Frank Schnelle, Mannheim FN, Mannheim "If a book grabs us in various readings, with a film might happen the same: "Between Marx and a Naked woman" is a film for a long time. For many readings" Cecilia Ansaldo, El Telégrafo, Guayaquil "Next to codified films, some popped out, brilliant, like "Between Marx and a Naked woman", by Camilo Luzuriaga" Ange-Dominique Bouzet, Liberation, Paris "Seen any Ecuadorian film lately? Not too likely, since its film industry is perhaps the smallest in Latin America, but it has already produced at least one world class filmmaker in Camilo Luzuriaga. After only two films he has established a unique voice, humorous, sensuous, fantastic, as well as harshly realistic and satirical." Michael Jeck, American Film Institute Preview, Washington "The great breadth of a film with a surprising pictorial and narrative level. Political cinema without any speeches, with a solid and impressing acting" Pedro Susz, Ultima Hora, La Paz "Attention! Chef-d'œuvre! The director buries here some illusions loved by South American intellectuals of the sixties. A joyful burial, with dream characters, roles at the same time absurd and passionate" Denise Beuchat, Le Quotidien Jurassien, Zurich "... only the second feature of the Ecuadorian Camilo Luzuriaga, who proves having an overwhelming imagination" La Gruyére, Zurich |
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ENTRE MARX Y UNA MUJER DESNUDA - Algunos comentarios de prensa (segunda parte)
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"... una cálida mirada a los conflictos entre lo político y lo amoroso... para terminar en uno de los mejores finales que he visto en años" A.R., El Amante, Buenos Aires "¡Atención, chef d'œuvre! El realizador entierra algunas ilusiones propias de los intelectuales sudamericanos de los años sesenta. Un entierro gosozo, con personajes soñadores y cómicos, por absurdos y apasionados" Denise Beachat, Le Quotidien Jurassien, Suiza "¡...obra maestra!" Denise Beachat, Le Quotidien Jurassien "...centelleante, inventiva y sofisticada ...llena de sentido, energía, pasión, inteligencia ...ampliamente creativa y graciosa" Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune "...filme para rato. Para múltiples lecturas." Cecilia Ansaldo, El Telégrafo "...brillante..." Ange-Dominique Bouzet, Liberation "...uno de los mejores finales que he visto en años." A.R., El Amante "...única, humorística, sensual, fantástica..." Michael Jeck, American Film Institute Preview |
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ENTRE MARX Y UNA MUJER DESNUDA - Ficha técnica
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ENTRE MARX Y UNA MUJER DESNUDA - Notas de prensa Internacional
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BETWEEN MARX AND A NAKED WOMAN - Marx seen by unusual eyes on a film from Ecuador
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From an almost unknown place comes a brand new film about something you should know, "Between Marx and a naked woman", the story of Galo Galvez, a brilliant leader of the Ecuadorian Communist Party, a crippled who travels around in wheel chair, and Margaramaria, his fiancée, with whom he lives a love relationship that suffers quartered among their Party discipline, Galvez illness and their need to love. Ecuador is a country located right upon the Equator, the invisible line that divides the world in northern and southern hemispheres, and right upon the Andes, the lands famous for the Incas and the coca plantations. But Ecuador might be best known for its shrimp and banana exports and not for its film industry. Simply because it has no film industry. Before 1980, not a single Ecuadorian long feature production had ever reached its cinemas. Before then, there used to be few foreign productions and some so-called "co-productions" that never established a local industry. And since 1980, only five long feature films, shot and produced by Ecuadorians, have reached Ecuadorian screens. The last one is the film you should see, "Between Marx and a naked woman", a film about the sixties in Ecuador, when Revolution was to be found around the corner, the times when everything was forbidden, even love. "I'm part of a generation that one day, all of a sudden, found itself lost in the middle of a market without nothing to sell. This market, where everything has a price, has always existed, but we behaved as if it never did: the belief in our ideals made us to survive out of it, but also gave us a filter that limited our view of the world and of ourselves" -has explained the director Camilo Luzuriaga- "Most of us act now as if those years of revolution had never existed. This could be an attitude that asks for forgiveness and permission to have a place in the market. Forgetting is the last part of abandonment, I could say, inverting the words of the main character of my film: 'Abandonment is the first part of forgetting'. And I don't want to forget" "Between Marx and a naked woman" is the second film of Camilo Luzuriaga. The first one was "La Tigra" ("The Tigress"), Best Film and Best Opera Prima at the Cartagena's Film Festival. So far, "Between Marx..." has been in the Official Selection of almost 50 festivals around the world and has received the Best Art Direction Award at the Havana Film Festivcal, Best Screen Play and Best Sound Track at the Trieste Film Festival in Italy, and has been nominated by the Spanish Academy of Film Arts and Sciences for Best Foreign Film. |
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BETWEEN MARX AND A NAKED WOMAN - Director's intentions
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I'm part of a generation that one day, all of a sudden, found itself lost in the middle of a market without nothing to sell. This market, where everything has a price, has always existed, but we behaved as if it never did: the belief in our ideals gave us strength to survive out of it, but also gave us a filter that limited our view of the world and of ourselves. Most of us act now as if those years of revolution had never existed. This could be an attitude that asks for forgiveness and permission to have a place in the market. Forgetting is the last part of abandonment, I could say, inverting the words of the main character of my film: "Abandonment is the first part of forgetting". And I don't want to forget. "Between Marx and a naked woman" is the second film of a three part series called "Del campo a la ciudad" ("From country to city"). The first one was "La Tigra" ("The Tigress") and the third one will be "Pluma" ("Feather"). "La Tigra" is a country story dated around 1930. It deals with a macho myth, a woman who, in order to preserve the property over her land, rejects any sexual possession because she knows the economical power of it. At the end, the city culture arrives, under the form of love, and places a struggle against the Tigress. "Between Marx and a naked woman" is a story of intellectuals that live in the city around 1960. For a reason they don't know yet, they want to save the nation rather than themselves. And for them the nation means the country, not the city, not them. In Ecuador the country are the Indians, so they go to the Indians but are rejected by them. "Feather" is directly a city story that will take place on present time. All characters will have a country background but will see themselves as city beings. They will see their lives as worthless and will do something they never expected to, in order to lighten their lives. All three are based on novels that represent, from my point of view, three important generations of Ecuadorian writers and three moments of recent Ecuadorian history: precisely the change from a rural society to a urban one. Change that I have lived myself. In this sense, the series should also reflect three moments of my own life. Camilo Luzuriaga |
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Formulario - ENTRE MARX Y UNA MUJER DESNUDA
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