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The Middle Ages (La edad media), dir. Alejo Moguillansky & Luciana Acuña, Argentina 2022, 90 min., Spanish with English subtitles
Director Alejo Moguillansky, his wife Luciana – a dancer – and their eight-year-old daughter Cleo are trapped at home in lockdown with their dog Juana. Smart, sassy Cleo chronicles the family’s lockdown existence with wit, enterprise and imagination. Alejo is trying to direct a Beckett play online with Walter Jakob (another Pampero Cine regular), Luciana is struggling to find a purpose when she can’t dance and tries dance classes online and Cleo, bored with her onscreen schooling and piano lessons, decides she wants a telescope and devises a plan to obtain the cash to buy it.
There are perceptive observations on what lockdown meant for the performing arts, and the droll uses of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot provide the sense of a present that doesn’t seem to move on. The Middle Ages offers slapstick choreography, impeccable comic timing and a wonderful ability to capture the dynamics – both functional and dysfunctional – of a family trapped at home who each try and find their way of dealing with an unprecedented situation.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Alejo Moguillansky, hosted by academic, critic and curator Maria Delgado.
Alejo Moguillansky's film If it Please the Court is also currently screening for free on Cinema 3
04:00 pm
Sat, 01 Jul 2023
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