Clan
Watching The Clan, you have to keep reminding yourself this absolutely insane story really happened.
The Clan
Directed by Argentinian auteur Pablo Trapero (“Carancho”, “White Elephant”), THE CLAN tells the true story of a middle-class family pulled into a world of kidnapping, ransom and murder by the family’s patriarch. On the surface the Puccios live like most families. Arquímedes (Guillermo Francella) presides over a modest household where his wife, sons, and daughters gather most evenings over home cooked meals to discuss their days. Eldest son Alejandro (Peter Lanzani) is a star rugby player who is manipulated into helping his father carry out the meticulously planned abductions. But when kidnapping turns to murder, Alejandro must finally face the truth that his father, his hero, is a cold-blooded killer.
Winner of the Silver Lion Best Director Award at the 2015 Venice Film Festival for Trapero, Official Selection at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, Winner of the Audience Awards at the 2015 GEMS-Miami Film Festival, Official Selection at the 2015 AFI Fest and Official Selection at the 2016 Palm Springs Festival, THE CLAN is Argentina’s official submission for Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards®.
Winner of the Silver Lion Best Director Award at the 2015 Venice Film Festival for Trapero, Official Selection at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, Winner of the Audience Awards at the 2015 GEMS-Miami Film Festival, Official Selection at the 2015 AFI Fest and Official Selection at the 2016 Palm Springs Festival, THE CLAN is Argentina’s official submission for Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards®.
Genre
Bio-pic,
Crime,
Drama
Runtime
110
Language
Spanish
Director
Pablo Trapero
Cast
Gastón Cocchiarale,
Giselle Motta,
Franco Masini,
Stefania Koessl
Awards:
Nominee, Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival
Winner, Silver Lion, Venice Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Alonso Duralde, The Wrap
Argentina’s totalitarian regime of the late 1970s made an invaluable contribution to the lexicon of euphemism by giving us the verb “to disappear,” a graceful way of describing the act of kidnapping and murdering political dissidents. In “The Clan,” based on the true story of a family that ran a ...
Played at
Playhouse 7 3.25.16 - 3.31.16
Monica Film Center 3.25.16 - 3.31.16
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