Films: Los Muertos / Liverpool

LOS MUERTOS / LIVERPOOL + Q&A filmmaker Lisandro Alonso

ABOUT THE FILMS:

LOS MUERTOS, 2004, Dir. Lisandro Alonso, 78 Min, Argentina

In Spanish with English subtitles.

A 54-year-old Argentinean man is imprisoned for killing his brothers. Once he is released, he travels great distances in a small boat on the Paraná River to find his grown daughter.

FORMAT: 35mm

LIVERPOOL, 2008, Dir. Lisandro Alonso, Match Factory, 84 Min, Argentina

In Spanish with English subtitles.

In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Farrel asks the captain of the freighter he works on for permission to go ashore once they reach the port of Ushuaia, the southernmost town of Argentina. Farrel wants to return to his birthplace and see if his mother is still alive. For the past twenty years, he has worked as a seaman. He drinks to oblivion, pays the woman he sleeps with, and has no friends. Having reached the cluster of snow-covered houses where he grew up, Farrel discovers his mother is indeed still living but someone else has become part of the family.

FORMAT: 35mm

Tickets: $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

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