Poster

Celina Murga - the director

Celina Murga was born in 1973 in Paraná, Entre Ríos. She studied at the Universidad del Cine, in Buenos Aires, and wrote and directed several short films as Una tarde felíz, Interior-Noche and Frío Afuera. Ana y los otros (2003), her first feature film, won prizes at Venice, Buenos Aires, Thessaloniki, Vienna, Anonimul (Rumania) and Punta del Este. It was elected as Best Latinoamerican Film of the year, by Fipresci International. Una semana solos (2008) is her second feature film. Celina Murga has been chosen by Martin Scorsese to spend a year of mentoring with him by the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative in 2008.

Ficha técnica / techincal info

Una semana solos / A Week Alone

Argentina, 2008

110 min. / 35mm / color

1:1:85, Dolby SRD

Director / Director: Celina Murga

Guión / Script: Celina Murga, Juan Villegas

Empresa de producción / Production Company: Tresmilmundos Cine

Productor / Producer: Juan Villegas

Producción ejecutiva / Executive Producers: Juan Villegas, Inés Gamarci

Dirección de fotografía / Cinematography: Marcelo Lavintman

Dirección de sonido / Sound Designer: Federico Billordo

Dirección de arte / Art Designer: Julieta Wagner

Vestuario / Costumes: Jimena Acevedo

Montaje / Edición: Eliane Katz

Música / Music: Inés Gamarci, Martín Salas y ……

Intérpretes / Cast

Magdalena Capobianco, Eleonora Capobianco, Ignacio Giménez, Gastón Luparo, Lucas del Bo, Ramiro Saludas, Federico Peña, Natalia Gómez Alarcón, Manuel Aparicio, Mateo Braun.

Con el apoyo de / with the support of

INCAA, Hubert Bals Fund, Universidad del Cine, Fondo Metropolitano de las Artes y las Ciencias de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Instituto Cultural de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.

Synopsis (english)

Teenagers and children adrift in the territory delimited by a closed neighborhood, a model scale citadel: houses with gardens, a school, a party hall, a pool. A round trip from leisure to tedium, with no fathers or mothers close, the orphaned-for-a-week kids circulate to create their own chaos regime in the commodity of an accepted prison: no one even tries to run away from there. In that everyday state of conformity a stranger joins them, the one from the outside who irrupts, but not even at that point does the traditional conflict come up, rather everything dissolves in an intermittent game of tenderness and cruelty. The idea is regain the density of every gesture with a frontal, crystal-clear and sharp eye. A choral portrait, played by a group of kids, with its maximum vertex in a musical outbreak, which concentrates an indefinite range of sentiments and senses. The innocent everyday things from childhood and the incipient ferocity that result from the enclosure make up this story that reflects a reality so far hardly told.