Film Review(s): El último Elvis; Las acacias; and El Estudiante, by Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli

Three recent Argentine films explore the social reality of marginalized communities.

Homo artis, Homo laborans, and Homo politicus

The Pursuit of Redemption in Three Recent Argentine Films

by

 Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli

El último Elvis, directed by Armando Bo; 
Las acacias, directed by Pablo Giorgelli; 
El Estudiante, directed by Santiago Mitre

Film Review: Homo artis, Homo laborans, and Homo politicus

Film Review: Homo artis, Homo laborans, and Homo politicus

Homo artis, Homo laborans, and Homo politicus The Pursuit of Redemption in Three Recent Argentine Films 
by Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli
Armando Bo, El último Elvis. Argentina, 2012
Pablo Giorgelli Las acacias. Argentina, 2011
Santiago Mitre El estudiante. Argentina, 2011

 One cannot be short of themes while there is still plenty of reality. Any hour of the day, any place, any person, is a subject for narrative if the narrator is capable of observing and illuminating all these collective elements by exploring their interior value. —Cesare Zavattini