A mature woman, a martyr of the home, with a husband who has lost love and two children who are into something else, decides one day to rebel and try a new life with a much younger man.
Encargada
A sexually-repressed girl of the Buenos Aires slums slowly goes mad after marrying.
Picardia's Aunt
The story of rebel gaucho Martin Fierro, his people, and their life in the Argentine Pampas. Based on José Hernández's epic poem.
Tormented by the messy and frivolous life of his family, a father is forced to move away from home.
Different stories that take place in a hotel for a temporary shelter for couples.
Cora is a Mexican prostitute with typically inconsiderate johns. She is troubled by a hole in the ceiling. The hole triggers flashbacks regarding how she got to where she is; she hooked up with a gringo and got involved in digging a well. A horse thief given up for dead gives them a hand.
Lisa Lavigne
Se relata la historia de Laura (Elsa Daniel), desde su salida del colegio interno de monjas, pura y virginal (impactante la primera escena de Laura personificando a la Virgen María en un acto de fin de año de la escuela) hasta su regreso a la ciudad (ya como amante de Francisco Rabal). Laura llega a su casa donde viven su madre y su tía, en un ambiente oscuro y riesgoso. Sabe que en el altillo, está el opa de la familia, un ser que avergüenza a todos, pero que se mantiene oculto. Laura, en complicidad con su novio (Leonardo Favio) descubrirá quién habita realmente ese altillo y qué secreto encierran todos. La película fue una coproducción con España y contó además de Elsa Daniel, Francisco Rabal y Leonardo Favio en el elenco, con María Rosa Gallo, Berta Ortegosa, entre otros.
This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The parallels are easy to make because the man is the same in both cases. The grandfather in the family has a rigid, tight-fisted control over his grandchildren, who eventually begin to rebel against his authoritarian and ironically puritanical behavior. At first, there is no real awareness of his opposite, criminal behavior outside the home. But as one of the grandsons begins to mature in his political savvy, the grandfather comes under well-deserved fire at last.
