- Awards
- 2 nominations
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Coming of age
The scenario for most of the movie is Dante Alighieri School, a private all-levels school in Córdoba, capital of Córdoba province, 700km northwest of Buenos Aires. In 2014, the school invited director Rosendo Ruiz to hold a film workshop with high school students, teachers and staff as participants and the goal of filming a full fledged film. There were actually two: All the Time in the World (2015) and this movie. The title (Maturità, Maturity) is in Italian; the school offers, according to its brochure ".promotion of the Italian language and culture within the Argentine community, bilingual and bicultural education."
The movie was shot in the framework of the 2015 elections. Amusingly for Argentinians my age, the film opens with a speech (by one of the school's professors) on the difficulty of placing Peronism in the left/center/right spectrum. Founded by President Juan D. Peron during his first tenure as elected President (1946-1955) the Peronist movement has been the arbiter of Argentine politics ever since, even when proscribed as in 1955-1973. It mixes populism and conservatism sometimes in strange ways.
All the Time... was a more fanciful film (three teenagers slacking from their duties and looking for a mythical community). This one is much more austere and down to earth, with almost a documentary feeling. The subject is described perfectly by the title. There is an underlying process of change where schoolchildren become adults. One aspect is political awakening, which motivates the creation of a Student Center where members interact with speakers and become aware of their voting choices (or lack thereof). Students begin to face their post school paths; university, jobs, family... Maturity plays also a role in personal relations; old friendships are reevaluated, relationships are sorted out (such as the romantic involvement of Canu, the protagonist, with her teacher of Art History, many years her senior). And finally, relations with parents are redefined and pared down to the essentials.
This movie bears witness to the success of the workshop. Direction achieves narrative fluidity and cinematography does justice to exteriors and to the sometimes labyrinthine interiors of the school. All actors are nonprofessionals and deliver very good performances; they are spontaneous and seem comfortable in their roles. To some extent, they probably play themselves.
The movie was shot in the framework of the 2015 elections. Amusingly for Argentinians my age, the film opens with a speech (by one of the school's professors) on the difficulty of placing Peronism in the left/center/right spectrum. Founded by President Juan D. Peron during his first tenure as elected President (1946-1955) the Peronist movement has been the arbiter of Argentine politics ever since, even when proscribed as in 1955-1973. It mixes populism and conservatism sometimes in strange ways.
All the Time... was a more fanciful film (three teenagers slacking from their duties and looking for a mythical community). This one is much more austere and down to earth, with almost a documentary feeling. The subject is described perfectly by the title. There is an underlying process of change where schoolchildren become adults. One aspect is political awakening, which motivates the creation of a Student Center where members interact with speakers and become aware of their voting choices (or lack thereof). Students begin to face their post school paths; university, jobs, family... Maturity plays also a role in personal relations; old friendships are reevaluated, relationships are sorted out (such as the romantic involvement of Canu, the protagonist, with her teacher of Art History, many years her senior). And finally, relations with parents are redefined and pared down to the essentials.
This movie bears witness to the success of the workshop. Direction achieves narrative fluidity and cinematography does justice to exteriors and to the sometimes labyrinthine interiors of the school. All actors are nonprofessionals and deliver very good performances; they are spontaneous and seem comfortable in their roles. To some extent, they probably play themselves.
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- Runtime1 hour 15 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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