Juan José Saer

Movies

El limonero real
Novel
Based on the novel by Argentine poet Juan José Saer, Gustavo Fontán’s beautiful film observes, over the course of a single day, three interrelated families who live around the Parana River. Wenceslao (Germán de Silva of Las acacias and Wild Tales) blames himself for his son’s death six years prior, but attempts to get his still-grieving wife to attend her sister’s New Year’s Eve party; she refuses, even after her nieces and other sisters join in the effort. Throughout, DP Diego Poleri captures the golden-hued radiance of the river during the day as spellbindingly as he does the charcoal-tinted night. -from http://www.filmlinc.org/
Retrato de Juan José Saer
Nadie nada nunca
Author
The Sidewalks of Saturn
Writer
Hugo Santiago and writers Juan José Saer and Jorge Semprún move back and forth between Paris and the city of Aquilea in a shadowy fable about exile. The frontier between one city and the other begins to blur after Bandoneonist Rodolfo Mederos is visited by his sister, a member of a guerrilla organization.
Palo y hueso
Writer
An old man pays a woman to live with him as if she were his wife, until one day he discovers that she's sleeping with his son.
Gaitán a casa
Writer
A young conscript soldier returns home to visit his family
El encuentro
Writer
A small-town, simple, working-class young man, marries a girl who won't resign herself to poverty and cheats on him with his employer.