Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I GENRE
- 1 The Future Catches Up with the Past: Peter Bogdanovich's Targets
- 2 Surrealism and Sudden Death in the Films of Lucio Fulci
- 3 Flash Gordon and the 1930s and '40s Science Fiction Serial
- 4 Just the Facts, Man: The Complicated Genesis of Television's Dragnet
- 5 The Disquieting Aura of Fabián Bielinsky
- PART II HISTORY
- PART III INTERVIEWS
- Works Cited and Consulted
- About the Author
- Index
5 - The Disquieting Aura of Fabián Bielinsky
from PART I - GENRE
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I GENRE
- 1 The Future Catches Up with the Past: Peter Bogdanovich's Targets
- 2 Surrealism and Sudden Death in the Films of Lucio Fulci
- 3 Flash Gordon and the 1930s and '40s Science Fiction Serial
- 4 Just the Facts, Man: The Complicated Genesis of Television's Dragnet
- 5 The Disquieting Aura of Fabián Bielinsky
- PART II HISTORY
- PART III INTERVIEWS
- Works Cited and Consulted
- About the Author
- Index
Summary
I said no to Hollywood. There you have no freedom to create.
—Bielinsky to Federico Fahsbender (Fashbender 2005)Film audiences won't find in [The Auray] an accessible or agreeable story. Also, the film doesn't show a bit of sympathy or good intentions for any of the characters. I'm talking not only about the near total lack of humor, but also that dramatic concessions were avoided in the screenplay — even though this is not a very good attitude when you think of a film as a product to be sold.
—Bielinsky to Amadeo Lukas (Lukas 2009)Fabián Bielinsky's career was brief, but incandescent, yet his moment in the public eye came after years of hard work and apprenticeship. Born on the 3 February 1959 in Buenos Aires, Bielinsky became obsessed with cinema during childhood and, by the age of 13, began making films while studying at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires — one of which was the short film Continuidad de los Parques (1971), based on a short story by Julio Cortázar. After graduating from high school, Bielinsky suddenly decided to pursue studies in psychology, but soon abandoned this to enter the Centro de Experimentación y Realización Cinematografia (also known as Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica or ENERC) where he directed another short film — La Espera (The Wait, 1983), from a story by Jorge Luis Borges — which also attracted favorable attention, winning first prize at the International Festival of Huesco in Spain (Moviefone 2013).
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- Cinema at the Margins , pp. 43 - 58Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2013