Mar del Plata 2005

"A Year Without Love"

Under the direction of filmmaker Miguel Pereira, the traditional festival (this year in its 20th edition) tries successfully to slip off the image as a glamour and star event which earlier directors had tried to impose, more or, mostly, less successfully. In the kurort of Mar del Plata, you could see a good selection of international films, and of course the festival organizers called attention in particular for Latin American and Argentinean films. The winner of our prize: A Year Without Love (Un año sin amor) by Anahi Berneri (Argentina). Details

Reports

Sentimental Nudity. Miguel Peirotti sees A Year Without Love (Un año sin amour), despite the subject of AIDS and sado-masochism, not as a sex film or a film about sex, but as a study in self-realisation.
Death Stalks Mar Del Plata. Ronald Bergan had to face Death in the many films about it that haunted this year's Mar del Plata festival.

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