2023-09-26 08:07:00
The hilarious gastronomic series “Nada”, by the duo of directors Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, with Robert de Niro explaining things about Buenos Aires and the Argentines, caused laughter at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Cohn and Duprat (“Illustrious Citizen”, “Official Competition”), direct this five-part series about a food critic played by Luis Brandoni, an elegant, biting and cynical man.
“Nothing” will arrive on the Star+ streaming platform on October 11. Produced by Metrovisión and co-written by Cohn, Duprat and Emanuel Diez, “Nada” follows Manuel (Brandoni), a sophisticated food critic accustomed to having everything resolved thanks to living with an assistant who also acts as housekeeper and cook. . However, everything changes completely when he is forced to change his routine and hire Antonia (Majo Cabrera) in his place, an inexperienced young woman who has recently arrived from a small town in Paraguay.
The meeting and the cultural and generational clash provoke a series of contradictory and unusual situations that influence and transform each other, in a process that will also be interrupted by the visit of Vincent (De Niro), a famous New York writer and old friend of the protagonist. , with which you will share food tastings, readings, existential talks and walks with the Buenos Aires landscape as a backdrop.
Boludo, according to de Niro
Robert de Niro, Brandoni’s real-life friend, intervenes in the series, explaining the particularities of Buenos Aires and the people of Buenos Aires, with memorable moments, such as his enumeration of the differences between a “boludo” and a “pelotudo.” (in the series trailer there is a small preview of that scene).
“There is an absence that many of us regret, which is that of Robert De Niro,” said Brandoni at the premiere at the Victoria Eugenia Theater, explaining that “The exemplary union conduct” of the two-time Oscar winner, in reference to the Hollywood actors’ strike, prevented him from coming to San Sebastián, “despite how much he would like to be here.”
“For us it was a luxury to do the series, because we have no less than two young actors who are just starting out, like Brandoni and Robert de Niro,” Cohn joked in the session.
Duprat previously told the festival newspaper how the American actor’s participation in this series came about, which will premiere on platforms in October. “We explained to him that the series was going to pay tribute to Buenos Aires and, as a lover of the city, he was enthusiastic,” Duprat told the festival newspaper.
“He spent ten days recording with us, of which we have excellent memories,” Cohn said in the same interview.
The festival in the Basque city in northern Spain has a culinary film section – nothing more natural in a place known for its excellent cuisine – in which “Nada” competes.
In addition to Brandoni and De Niro, the cast includes María Rosa Fugazot, Majo Cabrera, ilvia Kutika, Enrique Piñeyro, Gastón Cocchiarale, Daniel Miglioranza and Pablo Novak, among others.
De Niro’s character is that of a foreign friend of the one Brandoni will play, in a bond that somehow emulates the one that unites the two actors in reality. According to “Beto”, their friendship was born more than 30 years ago at the request of mutual acquaintance with Lito Cruz and has been going on for many years.
For De Niro it was the second experience filming in Argentina, after being in “The Mission” in the ’80s. The filming of the “Taxi Driver” actor took place in May of last year.
Yoga y crisis matrimonial
In the official section, and competing for the Golden Shell, yesterday the Argentine “LaPractica” by Martín Rejtman was exhibited; “A silence” (Un silence), by the Belgian Joachim Lafosse – who won the Silver Shell for best direction in 2015 for “Les chevaliers blancs” (The white knights), and “MMXX”, by the Romanian Cristi Puiu.
“The Practice”, a film with flashes of comedy, tells the story of Gustavo, an Argentine yoga teacher who has lived in Chile for years, who is in the process of separating from his wife, also an instructor.
“In general, I make films with humor, I think this is the most comedy comedy, the one that falls most within the comedy genre, even though it is also a little strange,” Rejtman explained at a press conference.
With around twenty projects in the program, and two films competing for the Golden Shell, Argentine cinema is one of the great protagonists of this edition of the San Sebastián Festival, where it also takes up practically half of the Horizontes Latinos section, dedicated to the cinema of the region.
The films of the day in this Latin American section are “Estranho Camino”, by the Brazilian Guto Parente, and “The Castle”, by the Argentine Martín Benchimol.
The first narrates the visit of a young filmmaker to his hometown in Brazil in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, and the second tells of the strange inheritance that a humble maid receives from her recently deceased employer: a castle in the Argentine pampas.
Parente’s film won an award at the New York Tribeca festival and Benchimol’s film premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival.
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