EIFF: Trenque Lauquen
A beguiling genre-fluid mystery from Argentinian auteur Laura Citarella.
Dir. Laura Citarella / Argentina, Germany / 2023 / Spanish with English subtitles
Laura, a botanist, has disappeared. As the two men who felt they knew her best seek out clues to her whereabouts, they realise how little of Laura they ever really knew. What begins as a mystery soon deepens into an odyssey of literary romance, queer kinship, meditations on landscape, and creature-feature sci-fi, via many shaggy-dog diversions. Director Laura Citarella, of the El Pampero Cine collective (La Flor), journeys through more plots and genres than many filmmakers will travel to in their whole careers. Across twelve chapters, over two feature-length parts (presented at EIFF as a single screening with an interval), she keeps it compelling, and creates a deeply absorbing cinema of enigmas.
Kate Taylor, Programme Director
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Director: Laura Citarella
Born in La Plata (Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina) in 1981, Citarella graduated as a film director from the Universidad del Cine. Since 2005, she has been part of El Pampero Cine Production Company, along with Mariano Llinás, Alejo Moguillansky and Agustín Mendilaharzu. Her filmography includes: Ostende (2011), La Mujer de los Perros (2015) and Las Poetas visitan a Juana Bignozzi (2019). Trenque Lauquen is her forth film. Citarella has also made a name for herself as one of the biggest independent movie producers in Argentina. Her production work includes, among others, Mariano Llinás’s Extraordinary Stories and La Flor, and Alejo Moguillansky’s Castro, The Parrot and the Swan, The Goldbug and For the Money.
Writers: Laura Citarella, Laura Paredes
Producers: Ezequiel Pierri, Ingrid Pokropek
Cast: Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Rafael Spregelburd, Juliana Muras
Sales Agent: Luxbox
Distributor: Bulldog Film
Read More
Venice Dispatch: Panahi’s “No Bears,” Citarella’s “Trenque Lauquen” by Leonardo Goi // MUBI Notebook
‘Trenque Lauquen’ Review: Lose Yourself, by Devika Girish // NYT
Written on Water, by Beatriz Loyaza // Film Comment
The Pampero Cinematic Universe: 20 Films in 20 Years, by Samuel Brodsky // Filmmaker Magazine
The Face in the Misty Light By Sarah Fensom // Reverse Shot
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Photo: Laura Paredes (Laura) in Trenque Lauquen
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