The International Festival of New Latin American Cinema today mourned the death, at age 82, of the distinguished Argentine filmmaker Adolfo Aristarain. Author of an award-winning and extensive body of work worthy of numerous accolades.
He died this Sunday in Buenos Aires, reported the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences. An institution that considers him a key figure in Argentine and Spanish film history over the last few decades.
His passing represents another significant loss for Argentine and Ibero-American cinema. Added the prestigious festival based in Havana, Cuba.
Aristarain told vital, evocative, sensitive, and brilliant stories. The Spanish Academy highlighted on its official website. Also recognizing the importance of cinema in the filmmaker’s life.
“He belongs to a generation that lived and breathed cinema: they fell in love with fantastical women, felt like heroes, could lie and kill with impunity… Cinema is part of their lives, it’s real, it’s not fiction.”
The filmmaker imbued his art into numerous productions. Including A Place in the World (Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film). Common Places (Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay). Time for Revenge, The Law of the Border, Martín (Hache), and Roma, his last work.
Moreover he was the first Argentine director to receive, in 2024, the Gold Medal of the Film Academy. “For being one of the fundamental names in the history of Spanish-language cinema.” He was also a “distinguished representative of the essential Argentine cinema. Which has contributed so much to our film industry.”
With information from Prensa Latina
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