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The Bitter Stems (Spanish language: Los Tallos Amargos) is a 1956 Argentine film noir directed by Fernando Ayala. The screenplay, written by Sergio Leonardo, was based on a novel by journalist Adolfo Jasca.
Fernando Ayala sows noir nihilism with Poe trappings and reaps a gorgeously-shot Argentinian crime quagmire that earns a place among the greats. The Bitter Stems unfolds as a suffocating narrative spiral: expressionistic dream imagery, couched in interspersed flashbacks, all contextualizing a train ride towards dark fates and psychological scars.
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In Fernando Ayala’s Los tallos amargos (US: The Bitter Stems), Carlos Cores stars as Alfredo Gaspar, a burnt-out journalist searching for meaning in his life.
Oct 27, 2023 · The innovative and evocative score, combining elements of tango, jazz, and classical music, is one of the first film scores by legendary composer Astor Piazzolla. After more than 60 years in ...
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Nov 19, 2021 · The innovative and evocative score, combining elements of tango, jazz, and classical music, is one of the first film scores by legendary composer Astor Piazolla. After more than 60 years in darkness, The Bitter Stems (Los tallos amargos) is finally restored and ready for rediscovery.
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The Bitter Stems: Directed by Fernando Ayala. With Carlos Cores, Julia Sandoval, Vassili Lambrinos, Gilda Lousek. A washed up reporter teams up with an immigrant from Hungary to start a fake journalism by correspondence school.
Nov 23, 2021 · This moment, which leads to the inevitable death foreshadowed in The Bitter Stems’s opening scene, is cleverly reframed in the film’s latter half, revealing how much of what we’ve been told was the result of delusions brought on by a man’s profound arrogance and remarkably fragile ego.
