Crane World

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Crane World

Aug 30 2018 | 00:03:45

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Show Notes

Pablo Trapera’s 1999 debut film tells the story of a construction worker, an ordinary member of the working class, to help portray the economic hardships of life in Argentina. Pablo Trapero is one of the four or five most highly acclaimed Argentine film directors. His first film, Crane World, released in 1999, put him on the world map with its almost documentary-style realism to create a portrait of modern Argentina trying to recover from the financial collapse of ‘98, an event comparable to the Great Depression in the U.S., and which lasted ten long years. The story concerns Rulo (played…

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