The Fire

(El incendio)
Juan Schitman | Drama, Fiction

2015 | 95 minutes | Argentina

A couple withdraw a hundred thousand dollars in cash from their bank to close on their first home. The sale's postponement uncovers the nature of their love as well as their crisis.

Synopsis

Lucia and Marcelo, a couple in their thirties, are about to move into the apartment they have just bought. But the real estate agent delays the time for handing over the keys. This unexpected small change will be the trigger for the couple to live their most intense 24 hours: arguments, mistrust, longings, doubts, sex, violence and tenderness burst, without apparent order, in the fraction of love they have left. An intense and accurate radiography, with high voltage performances.

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Main credits

Schnitman, Juan (film director)
Barberini, Juan (actor)
Gamboa, Pilar (actor)
Francisco, Bárbara (film producer)
Brom, Fernando (film producer)
Dubcovsky, Diego (film producer)
Liendo, Augustina (screenwriter)

Other credits

Cinematography, Soledad Rodríguez; editing, Andrés Pepe Estrada.


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Festivals

Berlin International Film Festival; Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema; Transilvania International Film Festival - Best Film; Festival du Nouveau Cinéma; CPH:PIX

DIRECTOR: Juan Schitman

NATIONALITY: Argentina

YEAR: 2015

GENRE: Drama, Fiction

LANGUAGE: Spanish

COLOR / B&W: Color

GRADE LEVEL: High School, College, Adults

SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE

AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE

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