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El Violin (2006)
Director: Francisco Vargas
Writer: Francisco Vargas
Release Date: 27 April 2007 (Mexico)
Genre: Drama
Awards: 11 wins & 6 nominations
http://imdb.com/title/tt0451966/
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Cast overview, first billed only: Ángel Tavira ... Don Plutarco Gerardo Taracena ... Genaro Dagoberto Gama ... Capitán Mario Garibaldi ... Lucio Fermín Martínez ... Teniente Silverio Palacios ... Comandante Cayetano Octavio Castro ... Zacarías Mercedes Hernández ... Jacinta Gerardo Juárez ... Pedro Ángeles Cruz ... Jefa Guerrilera 1 Norma Pablo ... Jefa Guerrilllera 2 Ariel Galvan ... Joaquín Amorita Rasgado ... Prostituta Joven María Elena Olivares ... Doña Lupe Esteban Castellanos ... Manuel Also Known As: The Violin (International: English title) Runtime:98 min (feature) / Argentina: 98 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival) Country: Mexico Language: Spanish Color: Black and White Filming Locations: Rancho San Isidro, Ixtapaluca, Estado de México, Mexico576x320 NTSC 25,000 xvid MP3 1.38.58The old saying that music can soothe the savage beast is both celebrated and challenged in "The Violin," the finely crafted writing-directing debut of Mexican filmmaker Francisco Vargas. Stark but absorbing drama follows an aging musician, beautifully played by Don Angel Tavira, who fiddles his way into the front lines of Mexico's peasant revolts during the 1970s. Black-and-white lensing and downbeat conclusion don't bode especially well for pic's commercial prospects, but the assured storytelling and impeccable social-realist values are sure to garner further attention from the festival circuit in general and Latin-themed fests in particular.
Expanded from Vargas' prize-winning short, "The Violin" gets its ugliest moment out of the way at the outset -- a brutal and arguably exploitative scene, set in what appears to be a shadowy basement, in which military officials interrogate and then torture a handful of tied-up villagers.
Filmed largely from the same dispassionate angle, opener establishes Vargas' sober docu-style approach, even as it presents a tableau far more gruesome and upsetting than almost anything that follows.
Action segues abruptly to elderly farmer Don Plutarco (Tavira), son Genaro (Gerardo Taracena) and grandson Lucio (Mario Garibaldi), who scrape together a living as traveling musicians by day (Plutarco plays the violin, Genaro the guitar). By night, they secretly amass resources for the peasant guerrilla movement stirring in the Guerrero region, intent on overthrowing the country's cruel regime.
The men return home to find their village occupied by military officials who have driven everyone into exile. While his son organizes a response, Plutarco, keen on recovering ammunition hidden in his cornfields, ventures back into the village. There, he initiates a tense relationship with the squad captain (Dagoberto Gama, both smug and sinister), one in which the violin plays comes to play an instrumental role.
Pacing is almost too leisurely early on, yet eventually settles into an exquisitely suspenseful rhythm as the cat-and-mouse interplay between Plutarco and the captain takes center stage.
Nonprofessional cast is uniformly strong, but the 81-year-old Tavira, in his acting debut (he was the subject of Vargas' 2004 docu "Tierra caliente ... se mueren los que la mueven"), inspires real affection with his enormously dignified, mildly dyspeptic characterization. His mouth perpetually downturned, his face as weathered and ruggedly expressive as the outdoor locales, Tavira's creation of a mischievously heroic figure disguised as a harmless-looking old man is the tale's chief satisfaction.
In a very real sense, Vargas seems to have tailored the picture specifically for Tavira, himself a lifelong violinist. (The actor lost his right hand in an accident at age 13, an injury that is woven into the narrative but left mysteriously unexplained.)
Rafael Ravello's costumes and Claudio "Pache" Contreras' modest production design, crisply shot on black-and-white by Martin Boege Pare, contribute to the naturalistic feel. Besides Tavira's violin solos, music is sparingly used and almost entirely germane to the setting.
Is my rip, only my source, plase patience...
El.Violin.Francisco.Vargas.Mexico.DVDRip.XviD-RiCoNSTeR.avi
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alegre escribió:La labor que se ha realizado atraves de DXC hace que el fondo historico de películas dignas de conocerse sea ingente.
Eso hace que los hilos de recuperacion de grandes obras del cine sea logicamente escasos a estas alturas de la película.
A nadie se le escapa que estamos en la cresta de la ola y los nuevos hilos suelen referirse a peliculas practicamente en tiempo real.
Por eso resulta doblemente emocionante poder postear una pelicula que sin duda sera recordada en el futuro proximo con la misma emocion con la que hoy se recuerda La infancia de Ivan de Tarkovski.
En un sobrio blanco y negro y con una fotografia heredera del gran maestro Gabriel Figueroa, Francisco Vargas nos ofrece una de esas escasa obras maestras que hacen grande al cine y su lenguaje.
En poco mas de 90 minutos y atraves de la historia del violinista Plutarco Hidalgo este director es capaz de trasmitirnos toda la realidad de las comunidades indigenas de una zona que `probablemente refleje mucho más que un pais y que nos golpea con la crudeza de un bofeton que nos hace recapacitar.
Sin perder de vista Los hombres armados de Sayles y La infancia de Ivan de Trakovsky Francisco Vargas habla con una voz timbrada alta y clara para verguenza de nosotros mismos y de los que dejamos que nos manden.
Si Trakovski nos presenta un heroe brutal con forma de niño sin futuro, Vargas nos presenta una vida sin futuro que sabe poner un broche de dignidad ante la brutalidad.
Bienvenida una obra que resultara dificil de olvidar.
La version que he visualizado es la que primeramente anunciaron en el clan y que se descarga rapido.
El.Violin.DVDrip.Xvid.by.Mostro.emule.via.www.clan-sudamerica.com.ar.avi 
Tiene un problema de AR que se soluciona cambiando el aspec ratio en la TV o en BSplayer.
la version aqui posteada tambien ha sido incluida en el posteo del clan así que supongo que entre todos no será muy dificil de descargar.
Pagina de fotos y trailer:
http://www.golem.es/elviolin/descargas.php
http://www.labutaca.net/films/44/elviolin.htm
un saludo
PD La película se estreno en España. Si tienen ocasion vayan a verla. Vale la pena recompensar esta obra.
