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The Southern Cross (2003) [N/A]

Featuring:
Letizia Lestido, Luciano Suardi, Humberto Tortonese

Written by:
Gustavo Fontán
Jorge Goldenberg
Pablo Reyero

Directed by:
Pablo Reyero


Release Date:
May 14, 2003

Original Title:
La cruz del sur

Genres:
Drama

Production Countries:
Argentina

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 86

Overview from TheMovieDB

Nora and Javier have been hired to transport a shipment of cocaine in an ambulance. With the help of Wendy, Javier's transvestite brother, they rob a part of the shipment and escape from the police. Moulded by loneliness, indifference and a lack of communication, Nora, Javier and Wendy are three youths with no future who move on the outer rim of society and are helpless in the face of a corrupt power. They hide in El Marquesado, a seaside resort built by the military on dynamited cliffs where Rodolfo and Mercedes, Javier and Wendy's parents, survive by rustling pigs and cows from neighbouring farms. The conflicts and tensions in this marginal family resurface as they are reunited in this remote place with a sinister past.

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Overview from Open Movies

This is an exceptionally disturbing film. I've seen a lot of stories about crime and punishment: but this one beats them all (except Les Amants Criminel perhaps).The setting of southern Argentina is cold, dirty, dark, gritty and utterly desperate. The inhabitants of these cursed territories carry a lifetime of misery on their shoulders and every choice they make is the wrong one. All they have is love for each other, but their survival instincts don't allow them to show their caring side. Even with death closing in, consolation escapes them.The double motive of the sea and religion who give and take life and there for are the only way out, are inserted beautifully. Direction is raw, wild and uncompromising and fits the subject matter perfectly. There's almost no soundtrack and no dialog: there's not much to say anyway: the background noise destroys all soothing silence.For a fictional debut of director Reyero, this is a very uncompromisingly rough film: but ravishing in its overwhelming ugliness.

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Rankings and Honors

The Southern Cross (2003) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 6.1/10
Awards Won: 2 nominations

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Production

Director:
Pablo Reyero

Second Assistant Director:
Bruno Roberti

Writer:
Pablo Reyero
Jorge Goldenberg

Writers' Assistant:
Gustavo Fontán

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