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Vagón fumador (Smokers Only)
sunday april 28 10:00 pm Screening $11 - COLONY THEATRE Film plus post-screening Crobar VIP party $25 |
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Andrés is a twenty-year old "taxiboy" who flies through the Buenos Aires night on rollerblades. Under the unerring eye of a surveillance camera, Andrés turns tricks with men he meets in an enclosed ATM at a bank in the center of the city. Reni is also twenty, a singer in a struggling band, already living on the edge. Spying Andrés connecting with a john, she is fascinated with what she sees. She enters the ATM and Andrés' world, initiating a dangerous game, and is drawn into the dark side of Buenos Aires and its rent-boy circuit. Reni believes in the redemptive power of love, but Andrés' world threatens to destroy her. Scanning the crowded sidewalks, Andrés is both innocent urchin and savvy hustler, scoping out his next score. As Reni walks, and then works, the streets with Andrés, the two become trapped in a dance of mutual discovery and inevitable loss. First-time feature film director Veronica Chen's Vagón fumador captures the mesmerizing erotic dreamscape of Buenos Aires at night with a fractured narrative that mirrors the urban rhythms that infuse the film. Edgy, hip and romantic all at once, it is a haunting, sexy meditation on the thrill, but also the ephemeral and precarious nature, of connection in the big city.
A 2002 Sundance Film Festival selection.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
thanks to Caroline Libresco and the 2002 Sundance Film Festival catalogue for film notes help
Preceded by Historia de amor en baño público (Love Story in a Public Toilet), Dir. Pablo Oliverio, Argentina, NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
When a young drifter spots a long-haired rough-neck in a Buenos Aires train station, it's dangerous and hot love-at-first-sight.
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