Argentina already has its representative in the race to the World Cup Academy Award for Best International Film. It’s about Criminalsl Rodrigo MorenoAs announced Monday afternoon via social media National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. This will be the director’s last film Guardian (2006), Mysterious world (2011) and Raymond (2014) – which premiered to very good reviews in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes – won the award EcstasyWritten by Daniela Goggi; blondBy Dolores Fonzi W Buan, by Maria Alce and Benjamin Naishtadt, are the other three titles that have emerged as favorites. The latest of them, who had just won Best Actor for Marcelo Subioto and Best Screenplay at the San Sebastian Film Festival, was chosen two weeks ago to represent the country at the Goya Awards in Spain.
with It is scheduled to premiere in Argentinian theaters on October 26 and has been acquired by Mubi for international distribution, Criminals The film tells the adventures of two bank employees (Daniel Elias and Esteban Bigliardi) who, tired of the gray and monotonous life suggested by the routine behind the desk, devised a plan to steal a sum of money large enough to guarantee a quiet life. But, as journalist and critic Luciano Monteagudo wrote in these pages regarding the film’s Cannes premiere, “There’s a lot more to the film’s three hours.” Criminals“.
“The film very subtly turns into a garden of branching paths, where the initial plot gives rise to other paths that are added with new characters, until they form a strange myth. There are themes that take shape, like the character of the double, with those split screens that appear – in very different and distant spaces.” each other – identical actions of the heroes, an anagram that playfully suggests this strange harmony between these two “Men who also fall in love with the same woman, at different times,” he wrote about the film “In Search of Freedom” at its core.
How the road to the Oscars continues
The next key date in the race for the golden statue is December 15, when the Hollywood Academy publishes the so-called “short list.”. What are these “short lists”? It should be noted that Best International Film is one of the ten categories that has a different voting system than the most relevant category system. For example, if the five selected from each acting category are voted on only by members of the Hollywood Academy for that branch, then in the case of World Productions and nine other categories, there is a pre-screening measure consisting of a front-runner in which 15 titles are pre-determined.
Not all shortlists are created the same way. In the case of international films, all Academy members are eligible for preliminary selection, as long as they can prove that they have seen a certain percentage of the total films submitted from each country. Once approved by the Academy, a score is awarded for each film watched, and those 15 with the best scores will have a place in the next round. This group constitutes the “short list”.
The second stage is to determine which of these fifteen will receive the five tickets to the concert, which will be held on March 10 of next year.This will not be known until January 23, along with the rest of the nominations. Here only those who have watched all previously selected international films will be able to vote. In this sense, it is a platform of international importance and resources such as Moby – One of the most active festivals in the world of festivals – It has screening rights to countries such as the UK, Italy, all of Latin America, and last but not least, the USA, meaning Huge support for the efforts that a good Hollywood marketing strategy requiresIn addition to organizing special screenings and events so that the largest possible number of voters can see the film.
And other pre-candidates
According to a survey conducted by the Otrocines website, as of Monday, 76 countries have already chosen their representative for the international category, a number that will certainly increase in the coming weeks, since in the last edition there were a total of 92 countries. Candidates. Criminals It won’t be easy. And not just because of its three-hour duration, which can scare off even the most restless souls, but because of the heavy weights you will be facing.. Among the most important are the Italians I am a leaderWritten by Matteo Garrone; Perfect daysWritten by Wim Wenders, representing Japan (producing country); British Area of interestWritten by Jonathan Glazer. Finnish Fallen leavesby Aki Kaurismäki and the French Dodin Bouffant’s passionwritten by Trần Anh Hùng, which despite its poor reviews has a high-quality style that tends to please a large portion of voters.
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