Since its founding in 1969 by the French Directors’ Guild, the Directors’ Fortnight has served as a vital and boldly independent counter program to the Cannes Film Festival. This year, the Directors’ Fortnight is taking it on the road for the first time, presenting locally curated selections of its 2024 program with director Julien Rejl in person.
The Fortnight Extended is presented by the Quinzaine des cinéastes, Villa Albertine, Acropolis Cinema, and the Museum of the Moving Image. Discount passes for admission to all seven screenings at the Culver Theater can be purchased here.
About the film:
In a working-class suburb of Buenos Aires, the Felpetos—the Sopranos next door—run a well-established underground betting business. Following the father's death, the family business has become matriarchal. Hernán Rosselli’s real-life childhood neighbour, Maribel, entrusted the filmmaker with her old family videos and agreed, alongside her family, to become a bookmaker in his filmic universe. Game theory and the shape of the network are interwoven with both individual memories and a country’s history.
TRT: 100 min
"Hypnotic... gently interrogates the politics of remembrance and documentation." —Olivia Popp, Cineuropa
"Compelling and intense... [An] air of claustrophobia and grunginess [are] powerfully in evidence in a film that sweats authenticity from every pore." —Jonathan Holland, Screen International
"An exciting and moving story... offers a unique and profound vision of family legacy and the secrets that surround it." —José C. Donayre Guerrero, EscribiendoCine
(Available to download after screening date)