LIVERPOOL

(Argentina , Netherlands , Spain , Germany , France, 2008, 84 mins)

35mm

US Premiere

Cast: Juan Fernandez, Giselle Irrazabal, Nieves Cabrera
Producer: Lisandro Alonso, Ilse Hughan, Marianne Slot, Luis Minarro
Director of Photography: Lucio Bonelli
Editor: Lisandro Alonso, Fernando Epstein, Martin Mainoli, Sergi Dies
Music: Flormaleva
Production Design: Gonzalo Delgado
Sound Design: Catriel Vildesola

Lisandro Alonso, writer-director of LA LIBERTAD and LOS MUERTOS and one of the key figures of New Argentine Cinema, elevates his austere, meditative style to poetic, provocative new levels with this story of a loner adrift both at sea and in his life. LIVERPOOL follows the story of Farrel (Juan Fernandez), a sailor who, having traveled from one end of the earth to the other, asks the captain of the freighter he works on for permission to go ashore once they reach the port of Ushuala, the southernmost town in Argentina. Farrel wants to return to his birthplace and see if his mother is still alive. Like characters who inhabit other Alonso films—the woodcutter in LA LIBERTAD and the convict traversing the jungle in LOS MUERTOS—Farrel is a solitary man. He drinks to oblivion, pays the women he sleeps with and has no friends. With a head full of dark memories, he treks through the endless snow, discovering his mother and a part of himself. One of the few living directors whose filmography represents a kind of subgenre, Alonso takes the techniques of observational cinema and invests them with insight and surprisingly wrenching emotion.

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