Director: Fernando Ayala
Cast: Carlos Cores, Julia Sandoval, Vassili Lambrinos, Gilda Lousek, Aída Luz,
Plot: Buenos Aires, Argentina. A failed reporter teams up with a Hungarian immigrant to set up a fake correspondence journalism school.
Folk horror and Argentine noir
The year gets off to an interesting start with a pair of excellent Argentinian films noirs – Román Viñoly Barreto’s The Beast Must Die (1952) and Fernando Ayala’s The Bitter Stems (1956) – beautifully restored by the […]