Pompeya
Pompeya
dir. Tamae Garateguy
Argentina, 2010 - 100
An experienced scriptwriter, his apprentice, and a film director get together around a laptop. They talk and start to imagine a gangster film that would take place in the margins of today's Buenos Aires. As the meetings go by, it becomes clear that the work is being held up by the first one's intellectual sophistication; he would prefer more Greek tragedy and Borges instead of blood, sweat, and bullets. In parallel, the imagined film shows up: a gore-like violent crime story whose underworld hero finds himself in the middle of a mafia war between Russians and Koreans that takes place in a mythical and cosmopolitan version of the Pompeya neighbourhood.
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