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The Bitter Stems (Spanish language: Los Tallos Amargos) is a 1956 Argentine film noir directed by Fernando Ayala. The screenplay, written by Sergio Leonardo, was based on a novel by journalist Adolfo Jasca.
Jan 23, 2016 · The Bitter Stems: Directed by Fernando Ayala. With Carlos Cores, Julia Sandoval, Vassili Lambrinos, Gilda Lousek. A washed up reporter teams up with an immigrant from Hungary to start a fake journalism by correspondence school.
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- Crime, Drama
- Fernando Ayala
- 2016-01-23
Nov 19, 2021 · The innovative and evocative score, combining elements of tango, jazz, and classical music, is one of the first film scores by legendary composer Astor Piazolla. After more than 60 years in darkness, The Bitter Stems (Los tallos amargos) is finally restored and ready for rediscovery.
- (19)
- Carlos Cores
- $30.38
- Blu-ray
Los Tallos amargos (The Bitter Stems, 1956) is a bleak and beautifully filmed Argentinian noir named by American Cinematographer in 1999 as one of the best shot movies from 1950-1997.
Fernando Ayala sows noir nihilism with Poe trappings and reaps a gorgeously-shot Argentinian crime quagmire that earns a place among the greats. The Bitter Stems unfolds as a suffocating narrative spiral: expressionistic dream imagery, couched in interspersed flashbacks, all contextualizing a train ride towards dark fates and psychological scars.
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- Artistas Argentinos Asociados
- Fernando Ayala
Feb 17, 2022 · The 1957 thriller The Bitter Stems (Los Tallos Amargos) is one of the most accomplished and compelling of the international film noir genre. Film studies professors looking to show their students an example of international film noir should screen The Bitter Stems in their classrooms.
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An inferiority complex leads a reporter from Buenos Aires into a correspondence-school scheme with a clever Hungarian expatriate.
