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Arrabalera

1950 · 83 min

A tango-soaked melodrama of hard luck and second chances, told with earnest feeling and a working-class heart.

Overview
Disenfranchised working-class woman leaves a bad man and finds a good one. Twenty years later...

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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • class
    • love
    • betrayal
    • survival
    • redemption
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action2
    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism7
    Romance6
    Tension4
    Darkness5
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight7

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    Tulio Demicheli
    Written by
    Ulyses Petit de Murat, Tulio Demicheli
    Starring
    Tita Merello, Santiago Gómez Cou, Mario Fortuna, Raúl del Valle, Tito Alonso, Marga López, Leticia Scury, Blanca Tapia
    Music
    Cátulo Castillo, Sebastián Piana
    Cinematography
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    Runtime
    83 min
    Country
    Argentina
    Languages
    Spanish

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