Adolfo Aristarain
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Argentina
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film director whom Variety
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has deemed a "master filmmaker."
After leaving Argentina Aristarain started working as assistant director in the Arcente cinema, and then in Europe
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during his short exile for Mario Camus, Giorgio Stegani
Giorgio Stegani
Giorgio Stegani is an Italian film and television writer, film director and second unit director.Stegani is best known for his western films of the 1960s. He wrote the script for westerns such as Un Dollaro bucato , directed and wrote Adiós gringo in 1965 and co-wrote Mille dollari sul nero .-...
and Lewis Gilbert
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before returning to Argentina in 1974, following the death of Argentine president Juan Perón
Juan Perón
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. His first 3 films did not receive favorable reviews, but in 1981 Tiempo de revancha
Tiempo de Revancha
Tiempo de revancha is a 1981 Argentine drama film directed and written by Adolfo Aristarain. The film starred Federico Luppi, Haydée Padilla and Ulises Dumont....
received both critical acclaim and public success. Released in the midst of the so-called Guerra Sucia ("Dirty War") when Argentina was ruled by a military dictatorship, the film had strong political undercurrents but faced few problems from censors. As Aristarain would later explain, he initially included long, unnecessary sex scenes in the film, "so the censors took five days and questioned things—not politics or ideology but sex. All I had to do was cut a few frames at the end of some scenes, like one of a strip tease. It doesn't hurt the scenes—especially if you made them longer than they should have been."
Back in Spain
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he directed a mini-series for television, and after a series of aborted projects he had renewed success in Argentina: Un Lugar en el Mundo
A Place in the World (film)
A Place in the World is an Argentine drama film co-written, co-produced and directed by Adolfo Aristarain. The film features José Sacristán, Federico Luppi, Leonor Benedetto, and others....
, starring Federico Luppi, with whom he has maintained frequent collaboration. He then filmed La Ley de la frontera and Martín (hache)
Martín (hache)
Martín is a 1997 Spanish and Argentine film directed by Adolfo Aristarain and starring Federico Luppi, Juan Diego Botto, Cecilia Roth and Eusebio Poncela.It was nominated for four Goya Awards in 1998, and Cecilia Roth won one for lead actress....
in Spain, also starring Luppi. Aristarain continued with his Argentine-Spanish mixture of actors in Lugares comunes and Roma.
Aristarain wrote all the scripts of his directed movies, except for the unreleased co-production with Columbia Pictures
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, The Stranger. He refuses to release the film because he is not content with the result.
He has received numerous awards for his work, including Golden Seashell and an Academy Award
Academy Awards
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nomination for Un Lugar en el mundo, Best Director award at the Havana Film Festival, and Golden Seashell nomination for Martín (Hache), the First Prize at the Havana Film Festival and the Grand Prix des Amériques award at the Montréal World Film Festival for Tiempo de revancha.
The Academy Award Nomination was disqualified by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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because the film was submitted for consideration (for Best Foreign Movie) by Uruguay
Uruguay
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(his wife's country) while The Academy claimed it was an Argentine production, and should therefore have been submitted by that country.
Aristarain has worked many times with several, notable actor, such as Federico Luppi (7 times), Julio de Grazia (4 times), Cecilia Roth
Cecilia Roth
Cecilia Roth is an Argentine actress.Her father, Abrasha Rotenberg , a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Ukraine, is an editor and a journalist. He met Cecilia's mother, an Argentinian singer of Sephardic descent Dina Rot, in Argentina. Cecilia Roth has made appearances in numerous television series...
(3 times), Ricardo Darín
Ricardo Darín
Ricardo Darín is an Argentine actor, screenwriter and film director.Darín is one of the biggest movie stars in Argentina. He played a number of parts in TV series for several years where he became popular as a young leading actor...
(3 times) and Ulises Dumont
Ulises Dumont
Ulises Dumont was a prolific Argentine film actor, credited with over 80 appearances in film and countless others in theatre and television from 1964 until his death in 2008.-Life and work:...
(2 times).
He has held Spanish Citizenship since 2003.
Filmography
- La parte del león (1978)
- La playa del amor (1979)
- La discoteca del amor (1980)
- Tiempo de revancha (1981)
- Últimos días de la víctima (1982)
- The Stranger (1987)
- Un lugar en el mundoA Place in the World (film)A Place in the World is an Argentine drama film co-written, co-produced and directed by Adolfo Aristarain. The film features José Sacristán, Federico Luppi, Leonor Benedetto, and others....
(1991) - La Ley de la frontera (1995)
- Martín (hache)Martín (hache)Martín is a 1997 Spanish and Argentine film directed by Adolfo Aristarain and starring Federico Luppi, Juan Diego Botto, Cecilia Roth and Eusebio Poncela.It was nominated for four Goya Awards in 1998, and Cecilia Roth won one for lead actress....
(1997) - Lugares comunes (2002)
- RomaRoma (2004 film)Roma is an Argentine and Spanish film released in 2004 directed by Adolfo Aristarain. The picture stars Juan Diego Botto, Susú Pecoraro and José Sacristán.-Plot:...
(2004)