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The Man from Earth
Why this pick
Like Man Facing Southeast, it rests on an articulate stranger’s extraordinary claim and lets sustained, skeptical conversation—not effects—create its philosophical suspense.
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MOVIE1986 1h 43m ARG
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The staff and patients go about their daily business at Buenos Aires' Borda Hospital on a summer day in 1985. A staff psychiatrist, Dr. Julio Denis (Lorenzo Quinteros) is surprised to hear that his ward for non-violent delusional cases has one patient too many. Denis finds the patient in the chapel playing the Organ (music) like a virtuoso. Summoning him (Hugo Soto (actor)) to his office, Denis finds the man's speech is measured and articulate as he explains his presence on Earth as a result of his image being projected from light years away. He introduces himself as "Rantés" (an exotic-sounding name in Argentina). Dr. Denis suggests that Rantés might be a fugitive hoping to hide from the law in the hospital. He lets the patient stay however, after seeing how his caring touch helps the other patients. The doctor is amused by his extraterrestrials in fiction claims and he suspects that the man is a genius using his talents as a charade.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Lorenzo Quinteros
Dr. Julio Denis