Juan José Campanella is certainly one of Argentina’s most essential administrators and screenwriters of the final 20 years, and has labored on world-renowned productions. Amazingly, his unique profession path was removed from cinema: Campanella studied engineering for a number of years, and had plans to forge a future within the discipline. But a screening of the movie It’s a Wonderful Life, directed and produced by Frank Capra, led him to find his ardour (per his interview with NPR), and from 1979 onwards, he by no means stopped engaged on quick movies, motion pictures, and TV sequence. His profession, nonetheless, just isn’t solely made up of nationwide productions: Campanella studied at NYU movie faculty and later directed The Boy Who Cried Bitch and Love Walked In, the latter in co-production with Argentina.
Like any director, Campanella has his personal choose group of actors who collaborate with him in a lot of his movies, similar to Ricardo Darín, Eduardo Blanco, and Soledad Villamil. Many of his productions have been awarded worldwide. El Hijo de la Novia and El Secreto de Sus Ojos have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, with the latter profitable in 2010. But apart from working in movies, Campanella took half in quite a few TV productions as director, author, and producer. Among essentially the most excellent ones are Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, House, and Vientos de Agua. Let’s take a look at his best motion pictures.
6/6 Metegol (Underdogs)
Metegol is a 2013 movie co-produced by Argentina and Spain, directed by Campanella and co-written by him and Eduardo Sacheri, Gastón Gorali, and Axel Kuschevatzky. Based on the quick story Memoirs of a Right Winger by Roberto Fontanarrosa, Metegol follows Amadeo, a younger man from a small city residing an earthly life. His fundamental interest is taking part in foosball at a bar, and ultimately he turns into an skilled at it. Some years go by, and an unwelcome customer involves the city: Grosso, an obnoxious younger man who grew to become a well-known soccer participant, proclaims that he has purchased the city and goes to construct a giant stadium there. He additionally desires to get revenge on Amadeo, who defeated him taking part in foosball after they have been youngsters. Amadeo is not prepared, as a result of regardless that he is a superb foosball participant, he isn’t excellent at soccer. Luckily, the figures of the foosball desk come to life, and are prepared to have interaction in a brand new match with him and thus restore peace to the city.
5/6 El Cuento de las Comadrejas (The Weasel’s Tale)
El Cuento de las Comadrejas is, to date, Campanella’s most up-to-date movie, by which he additionally served as co-producer and co-writer. This remake of the 1976 movie Los Muchachos de Antes No Usaban Arsénico stars Graciela Borges, Luis Brandoni, Oscar Martínez, Marcos Mundstock, Nicolás Francella, and Clara Lago, and was launched in 2019. In it, we meet Mara, a retired film star who lives quietly with three different trade colleagues as they undergo the twilight of their lives whereas recalling their golden years. Their concord is disturbed by two younger individuals who intend to grab their previous mansion, however these artists are prepared to do something as a way to cease them.
4/6 Luna de Avellaneda (Avellaneda’s Moon)
The social membership Luna de Avellaneda has been within the neighborhood for years, however because of the nation’s disaster, the proprietor intends to show it right into a on line casino. The establishment’s associates, who’re very keen on the membership, refuse to surrender on their group. Therefore, Román, one of many long-time members of the membership, is decided to take motion, and joins forces with Graciela and Amadeo to try to save lots of the place and preserve their group alive. This 2004 blockbuster stars Ricardo Darín, Mercedes Morán, and Eduardo Blanco, and it’s impressed by the real-life story of the Juventud Unida de Llavallol Club in the course of the Argentinean disaster of 2001.
3/6 El Mismo Amor, la Misma Lluvia (Same Love, Same Rain)
Ricardo Darín and Soledad Villamil star in El Mismo Amor, la Misma Lluvia (Same Love, Same Rain) as Jorge and Laura, a pair who interact in an on-again, off-again relationship over the course of 20 years. Jorge is a promising younger author, however he makes his residing working for {a magazine}. Laura, then again, is an aspiring actress working as a waitress. Their relationship has its ups and downs, and within the course of they navigate by means of numerous social and political conditions in Argentina. This 1999 movie was nominated in 13 classes on the Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, and gained, amongst them, Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Original Screenplay.
2/6 El Hijo de la Novia (Son of the Bride)
In 2001, El Hijo de la Novia (Son of the Bride), written by Campanella alongside Fernando Castets, was launched, a manufacturing that was a vital and field workplace hit, incomes a Silver Condor for Best Film on the Argentine Film Critics Association Awards. In it, Ricardo Darín stars as Rafael, a person who has lately inherited his father’s restaurant and is overwhelmed by too many obligations. With so little time on his palms, he neglects his daughter, his companion, and even his mom, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, not to mention has time to domesticate his friendships. But following a coronary heart assault, he’s pressured to reassess his life and work along with his father to satisfy his mom’s lifelong dream: to get married in a church. Darín is joined on this manufacturing by Héctor Alterio and Norma Aleandro.
1/6 El Secreto de Sus Ojos (The Secret in Their Eyes)
El Secreto de Sus Ojos is undoubtedly Campanella’s masterpiece, navigating a narrative filled with mysteries to be unearthed. In it, Darín stars as Benjamín, a retired judiciary agent who has by no means been in a position to put an unsolved case behind him: the rape and homicide of Liliana Colotto in 1974. Going by means of an existential disaster and making use of all of the spare time he now has, Benjamín units out to put in writing a guide in regards to the case, making an attempt to make sense of it and remedy it as soon as and for all. However, he quickly finds himself as soon as once more too concerned with this darkish crime. El Secreto de Sus Ojos was essentially the most profitable movie of 2009, and one of many highest grossing movies within the historical past of Argentine cinema. It was additionally the one which earned Campanella his first Oscar. Darín is joined within the solid by well-known stars of this director’s productions, similar to Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago and Guillermo Francella, amongst others.