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Contemporary Latin Film Week: Chinese Take-Out

Contemporary Latin Film Week: Chinese Take-Out

Argentina, Spain 93 min.

In Buenos Aires, the bitter and methodic Roberto is a lonely man and the owner of a hardware store. Roberto collects bizarre worldwide news in an album as a hobby and his acquaintance Mari has an unrequited love for him, but Roberto is always evasive.

One day, Roberto sees a Chinese named Jun being expelled from a taxi while he is watching the landing of airplanes in the airport and he helps the man to stand up. Jun does not speak Spanish and shows a tattoo with an address on his arm. Roberto heads to the spot with Jun and discover that the place belonged to Jun's uncle that sold it three and half years ago. Roberto goes with Jun to the police station, to the China's embassy and to a Chinese neighborhood to seek out his uncle but it is a fruitless search. Roberto lodges Jun in his house and after a series of incidents, he finds a delivery boy to translate Jun and he learns the dramatic story of his life.

Showtime

  • Tue 22.11.2022. 20:00

Location

Polyvalent hall - Duke's Palace

Poljana Šime Budinića 3
23000 Zadar

Original title
Un cuento chino
Director
Sebastián Borensztein
Scenario
Sebastián Borensztein
Actors
Ricardo Darín, Ignacio Huang, Carolina Hsu, Muriel Santa Ana, Pablo Seijo, Iván Romanelli
Photography
Rodrigo Pulpeiro
Production
Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), Pampa Films, Televisión Federal (Telefe), Tornasol Films, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA)
Distribution
Veleposlanstvo Španjolske u Hrvatskoj