
La obra del siglo
In an abandoned nuclear project conceived by Cuba and the USSR, a disillusioned engineer survives with his mean father and his frustrated son, while 1970s found footage of the "project of the century" describe its ambitious scope.
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"Carlos Quintela has a jovial disposition and a diaphanous nature, but with him things are not "easy": his flow of ideas is coherent, but it may seem a bit complex to those adept at superficial readings. His debut feature «La piscina» (The Swimming Pool) seemed a simple tale of five people meeting at a public pool during a summer day, but there was more than meets the eyes, from dramatic threads that were not shown with the usual resources of film narrative, to a calculated strategy to film them. With his next work «La obra del siglo» the complexity is an intrinsic and integral part o..."
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Winner of the Critics' Award for Best Film in the Lima International Film Festival 2015.
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In an abandoned nuclear project conceived by Cuba and the USSR, a disillusioned engineer survives with his mean father and his frustrated son, while 1970s found footage of the "project of the century" describe its ambitious scope.