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The Dark Side of the Heart (Spanish: El lado oscuro del corazón) is a 1992 Argentine surrealist romantic drama film written and directed by Eliseo Subiela. The film was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. It is currently considered a cult film.
Plot
Oliverio (Grandinetti), a Bohemian poet, travels through Buenos Aires with his friends, harassed by Death, looking for a woman capable of “flying”. In the course of the film, the poetry of Mario Benedetti, Juan Gelman and Oliverio Girondo is seen intermingled with the thickest places of Argentine and Uruguayan artistic daily life. From the barbecue, to the battered bars of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, the main character's thought is intermittently intertwined with fiction, only to be able to better show the central character's thinking.
The story unfolds in the comings and goings of Oliverio, through his world, in which, exchanging food for poetry, or asking for coins on street corners, seeing Mario Benedetti reciting his poems in German, seeing Genetic sculptures, talking to cows, and conversing with death seem to be part of any given day in the life of a poet.
Cast
Darío Grandinetti as Oliverio
Sandra Ballesteros as Ana
Nacha Guevara as Death
André Melançon as Erik
Jean Pierre Reguerraz as Gustavo
Mónica Galán as the ex-wife
Inés Vernengo: the blind girl
Awards
Montreal World Film Festival
Grand Prix des Amériques
Biarritz Film Festival
Best Actor
Best Actress
Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival
Critic Award
Havana Film Festival
Best Actor
Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences Awards
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best Art Direction
Best Editing
43rd Berlin International Film Festival
Jury Award of the Readers of the Berliner Zeitung newspaper, International Forum of Young Cinema
Cartagena Film Festival
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Critics Jury Award
Cinoche International Film Festival of Baie-Comeau
Best Screenplay
Festival du film de Sept-Îles
Best Film
Silver Condor, Argentine Film Critics Association
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best Art Direction
Best Female Revelation
Bergamo Film Meeting
“Rosa Camuna” Award for Best Film
Sin Cortes Awards
Best film
Best Screenplay
Best Art Direction
Best Original Music Score
Best Female Revelation
Argentores Awards
Best Film Book
Festival de Gramado
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Original Music Score
Sequel
A sequel titled The Dark Side of the Heart 2 was released on July 5, 2001. A Spanish-Argentine co-production, it was again written and directed by Eliseo Subiela, with Darío Grandinetti and Sandra Ballesteros reprising their roles from the original film. The supporting cast includes Ariadna Gil, Manuel Bandera, Carolina Pelleritti and Nacha Guevara.
See also
List of submissions to the 65th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
List of Argentine submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
External links
The Dark Side of the Heart at IMDb
The Dark Side of the Heart at Cine Nacional
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