The Man Next Door

(El Hombre de al Lado)

Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat / Argentina / 2010 / 103 min
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Spanish with English subtitles

With Rafael Spregelburd, Daniel Aráoz, Eugenia Alonso, Inés Budassi, Eugenio Scopel

Life is seemingly ideal for Leonardo, a prestigious designer who lives with his family in a famous house designed by Le Corbusier, until one day his neighbor Victor, a boorish used-car salesman, breaks through a common wall to make a window in order to “catch a few rays of sun.” Unfortunately, Victor’s new window looks directly into Leonardo’s living space. As the tension mounts between Leonardo and Victor, this black comedy explores the complex relationships between class, social barriers, and morality. One of the most successful Argentine films of the year, this award-winning, architecture-enamored film was shot entirely at Casa Curutchet (La Plata, Argentina), an architectural masterpiece and the only house in the Americas designed by Le Corbusier.

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About the Director
Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, have worked extensively together in both television and film. Their first full-length film was the documentary Me President (Yo presidente), a compilation of interviews of various presidents in Argentina’s recent history including Menem, Alfonsín and De la Rua. With The Artist (El Artista) they made their first fiction movie about a male nurse who steals a drawing from one of his patients and try to make a profit from it. Then just one year later, The Man Next Door premiered in Argentina, winning several awards such as the Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival, and Best Film, Director, Best Actor and Best New Actor awards at the Clarin Awards®. The film was also nominated at the Goya® Academy Awards for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film. With their latest film, Honey, I’m going to buy cigarettes and come back in a minute, (Querida Voy a Buscar Cigarrillos y Ahora Vuelvo), they examine the supernatural.
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