"The dawn o f a sex symbol"
Ten actresses, all of them eighties' icons, are summoned to star in a theater play in Buenos Aires. This documentary goes behind the scenes and portrays their lives today. Thirty years after their glory days, what is it that drives them to make their comeback?
Silvia Peyrou
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Beatriz Salomón
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Adriana Aguirre
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Luisa Albinoni
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Pata Villanueva
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Naanim Timoyko
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Patricia Dal
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Noemí Alan
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Mimí Pons
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Ten actresses, all of them eighties' icons, are summoned to star in a theater play in Buenos Aires. This documentary goes behind the scenes and portrays their lives today. Thirty years after their glory days, what is it that drives them to make their comeback?
The film consists of 16 shorts that explore, with humor and social criticism, the characteristics of the Argentine identity.
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
At age 13, a street kid known as "El Polaquito" makes his living mostly by singing tangos on Buenos Aires commuter trains. He falls in love with a 16 year old prostitute, also working for the Mafia controlling child exploitation in one of Argentina's busiest train stations. He tries to rescue her from this cruel life with no future. But to do so, he must confront the ruthless adult gang leaders, as well as the young kids who protect them, believing that this Mafia is truly their only option.
A famous TV weatherman, Miguel Flores, becomes public enemy number one when he fails to predict a terrible hailstorm. He is forced out of the big city, Buenos Aires, fleeing the capital for his birthplace of Córdoba. The result will be a voyage of rediscovery that is as absurd as it is human.
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.
In the 1980s, Andrew McCarthy was part of a young generation of actors who were set to take over Hollywood after a string of successful teen movies. However, when the New York magazine cover story in 1985 dubs them the Brat Pack, stars in the making suddenly find themselves losing control over the trajectory of their careers. Now, almost forty years later, McCarthy looks to reconnect with peers and co-stars so that together they can reflect on their respective legacies.
Nina Geld's passion and talent have made her a rising star in the comedy scene, but she's an emotional mess offstage. When a new professional opportunity coincides with a romantic one, she is forced to confront her own deeply troubled past.
Amid the sweltering summer heat in northern Argentina, two middle-class families retreat to a crumbling country estate and a modest townhouse, where strained relationships, simmering tensions, and the presence of children and servants quietly expose the fractures of family life. Between idle days, gossip, and unspoken desires, the boundaries of class, tradition, and faith are reflected in their everyday interactions.
This character-driven film considers the evolving sex trafficking landscape as seen by the main players: the exploited, the pimps, the johns that fuel the business, and the cops who fight to stop it.