THE WEASELS' TALE
OPENING NIGHT FILM
TAFFNY VIRTUAL CINEMA
*In partnership with Instituto Cervantes NY
JUNE 21, 2021. Available from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Followed by a pre-recorded conversation with filmmaker Juan Carlos Campanella
ABOUT
ORIGINAL TITLE: El Cuento de las comadrejas
DIRECTOR: Juan Jose Campanella
CAST: Graciela Borges, Oscar Martinez, Luis Brandon, Marcos Mundstock, Clara Lago, Nicolas Francella
AWARDS: Audience Awards at AFI Latin American Film Festival, Habana International Film Festival and Chicago Latino Film Festival
Miami Film Festival Official Selection
Four Nominations for Platino Awards for Iberoamerican Cinema
Date completed: 2019
Country: Argentina-Spain
Film Category: Fiction
Length of Film: 129 min
SYNOPSIS
Festival darling and box-office hit, the newest crowdpleaser from Oscar-award winning director Juan José Campanella, EL CUENTO DE LAS COMADREJAS (THE WEASELS’ TALE) is a biting comedy about a group of eccentric film veterans from Argentina’s Golden Age of cinema— a beautiful starlet, an actor in the twilight of his life, a witty screenwriter, and a cunning director— who live together in a mansion. Their unusual life is turned upside down when the house becomes the target of young real estate developers, forcing the elderly inhabitants to come together and conspire to drive the couple away and keep their home. Financial gain, seduction, betrayal, and memories run amok are the elements that create the recipe for this delightful game of cat…and weasel.
DIRECTOR'S BIO
Juan José Campanella is an Argentine television and film director, writer, and producer. After studying engineering for four years in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he dropped out of university in order to pursue film. He made his directorial debut in 1979 with the short film “Prioridad nacional” (National Priority), after which he traveled to the United States and enrolled in New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1980. Campanella has directed American films and TV shows, including Love Walked In in 1997, and episodes from House, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and 30 Rock. In 2009 he directed the mystery film “El secreto de sus ojos” (The Secret in Their Eyes), which went on to win the Academy Award for Best International Film, formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film, in 2010.
