Los muertos
An initiative of CINEMATEK, Cinea and Courtisane, in collaboration with the Embassy of Argentina in Brussels and Instituto Cervantes.
In the presence of Lisandro Alonso.
Courtisane is een platform voor film en audiovisuele kunsten. In de vorm van een jaarlijks festival, filmvertoningen, gesprekken en publicaties onderzoeken we de relaties tussen beeld en wereld, esthetiek en politiek, experiment en engagement.
Courtisane is a platform for film and audiovisual arts. Through a yearly festival, film screenings, talks and publications, we research the relations between image and world, aesthetics and politics, experiment and engagement.
An initiative of CINEMATEK, Cinea and Courtisane, in collaboration with the Embassy of Argentina in Brussels and Instituto Cervantes.
In the presence of Lisandro Alonso.
“In Los muertos, a man named Argentino has just served a prison sentence for killing his younger brothers. The film picks him up at the prison’s exit and follows him in his journey downriver to find his daughter. Critics speculated that he is a compulsive murderer who would end up killing her after the film ends. We’ll never know, because the director doesn’t have the slightest idea. There are two constants in Alonso’s cinema: nature and the desire to confront the viewer with primitive ways of life that are far removed from so-called civilization. Cinema becomes a space in which man inhabits indescribable realms of human nature.” (Quintín)
Dutch & French subtitles