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Gricel. Un amor en tiempo de tango

2012 · 67 min

A wistful, music-filled reflection on a love that lingers, told with gentle melancholy and the pulse of tango.

Directed by
Jorge Leandro Colás
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Pablo Basualdo, Paula Bresci, Soledad de la Rosa
Overview
Musical documentary about the love story between tango lyricist José María Contursi and a village girl named Gricel. After a passionate and forbidden romance, Contursi and Gricel separate and propose to forget each other, but they discover that forgetting is impossible.

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Directed by
Jorge Leandro Colás
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Pablo Basualdo, Paula Bresci, Soledad de la Rosa
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Tone
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • memory
  • isolation
  • art
  • fate
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance7
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
Pablo Basualdo, Paula Bresci, Soledad de la Rosa, Josefina Rozenwasser, Juan Villarreal, Carlos Morel, Ernesto Pierro, Oscar Fresedo
Cinematography
Leonel Pazos Scioli
Runtime
67 min
Country
Argentina
Languages
Spanish

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