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Lost Embrace
Why this pick
Burman’s earlier Buenos Aires dramedy shares Family Law’s wry first-person intimacy, Jewish family texture, and a young man’s tentative effort to understand himself through his father.
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MOVIE2006 1h 42m ARG
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film tells the story of Ariel Perelman. While he has an easygoing lifestyle, he's trying to find his way in life in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He works at a university as a law professor. The film begins with a long narration of the way things stand in his life. He describes his father, Bernardo Perelman, in detail. Perelman, as he's known, is a popular public defender who meets his clients where they work or in restaurants so he can determine what they are "all about." Most of his clients are generally poor. He's very close to his secretary since his wife died fifteen years ago. Work fills Perelman's days, and Ariel is astonished by his energy.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Daniel Hendler
Ariel Perelman
Arturo Goetz
Bernardo Perelman
Adriana Aizemberg
Norita
Julieta Díaz
Sandra