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Jan 15, 2016 · It’s now going global: opening dates include the US this month, the UK in early summer. It’s not the story alone that spellbinds, one that happened in the early 1980s as the last years of...
Family friends and soccer acquaintances. Yeesh. Now, 27 years after the Puccio’s were caught and convicted, Argentine filmmaker extraordinaire Pablo Trapero finally realized that the universe...
- On Tackling This Challenging Story
- On Casting Guillermo Francella as Arquimedes
- On The Film’S Pop Soundtrack
- On Winning The Silver Lion at The Venice Film Festival
The first time I thought about making this film was back in 2007. I was shooting Leonera and I started to see what I could find about this case. And I noticed something that while this had been a pretty big and important case, I didn’t have a lot of information about it. So that meant doing a lot of research, which took quite some time. And it beca...
Well, so on top of the challenge of serving the story and honestly depicting this troubled part of Argentine history, another challenge was the fact of actually making the film with all its technical details. And that included the characterization of Puccio, who’s this very fascinating character in it of himself. So, early on I contacted Francella ...
Well, I’ll tell you this. The music fulfills a number of roles in the film. Firstly, they help set the film in its period. They’re all songs from that era, from the specific years when the action takes place. And the other role it plays is, as you see in the film, that this was really the way they used music as this sort of torture. They had music ...
Well, I have to say I was truly grateful. Curiously, I’d screened my first film at Venice and it went on to win lots of critical prizes there, and it really helped my career. It gave me a boost, for sure. So I was happy that that happened with Mundo Grúa. But of course to win the best director prize [the Silver Lion for The Clan] well, it’s unique....
Dec 1, 2015 · Trapero’s El Clan, about the true-life kidnap and murder ring run in the 1980s by the middle-class Puccio family, is Argentina’s foreign-langage Oscar submission. Lindon expressed solidarity...
Dec 22, 2017 · However, with democracy returning to Argentina and the end of the military dictatorship which protected Arquímedes, trouble finds the Puccio clan. The final kidnapping in the Puccio story is of a 65 year old woman who Arquímedes and Maguila hide in a newly constructed basement on their property.
Dec 14, 2014 · The Clan ( El Clan) is a noir thriller based on the extraordinary case of the wealthy Puccio family, who ran a clandestine kidnapping and murder ring from their San Isidro home in the early...
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The Clan (Spanish: El clan) is a 2015 biographical crime film written and directed by Pablo Trapero and starring Guillermo Francella and Peter Lanzani. It was selected to be screened in the main competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, where director Pablo Trapero won the Silver Lion.
