tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655588228309700460.post1768597181775821952..comments2023-11-26T10:23:49.484-08:00Comments on The Real John Davidson: Ricardo Darin brings charm from ArgentinaJohn F Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14150874570652698144noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2655588228309700460.post-70759424521745750212015-09-24T22:45:45.866-07:002015-09-24T22:45:45.866-07:00Hi! I like your blog! It's true, Ricardo is an...Hi! I like your blog! It's true, Ricardo is an amazing actor (also a sweet humble man!). As you're interested in his films, maybe you’d like to check his last one called "Truman". In fact, today was released in Argentina but it was introduced in Toronto Film Festival and San Sebastian Film Festival in these days with great reviews. Now he's in Spain and everybody is talking about the movie which makes him the favourite to win a Donostia award as best actor in San Sebastian. I watched the film today and it's so moving, every careful detail, every subtle gesture, really well crafted... I have to tell you something you may don't notice if someday you watch the movie: as his role is an argentine actor who has lived for so many years in Madrid, in his flat you could see pictures which the camera barely shows but as an argentine I could tell that they were biggest hits in Darín's career as one which portraits him alone with a tuxedo and it says "Hermitage 1983" (a theather in Buenos Aires where he used to do a musical with his ex girlfriend, Susana which is huge star and beloved as Oprah in Argentina) and another picture in which is dancing tap with another man (Arturo Puig who have worked with him in "Thesis on an Homicide" and in the same play with Susana called “Sugar”- a musical version from "Fanfare of love" but you propably watched its remake called "Some like it Hot" with Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. Darín’s character was Lemmon's "Jerry"). Also I have to tell you, both Susana and Arturo were the young rising stars of a 1970’s movie and it was Ricardo's first film at the age of 12-13 years old called "He nacido en la Rivera" ("I was born in the Rivera" - a poor neighborhood-). So I think it's a wink to his own career and friends. It let you know in the past he might have certain success before lose it all. Another thing I want to let you know is that he told in a very deep interview with a famous psychoanalyst & journalist that he felt deeply moved by his role (a man with terminal cancer) as he remind him his own father who also died of cancer and he cried a lot when he read the script so in certain way he found in his own father some of the features we can see now in this character. His parents had a tv show kinda "I love Lucy" and another ones on local radios with certain success and I really don't know what happened with his father later but he slowly disappeared from the entertainment scene in Buenos Aires... so I guess this movie has a deep meaning for Ricardo. In the latest press conference, you could see him losing the actor's mask and exposing himself in a more visceral way when he talked about certain things of his role... he started crying in San Sebastian and Buenos Aires talking about the dog of the film (Truman) as he passed away but maybe as his character, he might be displacing some feelings there.. who knows. It was weird because he usually is an euphoric, extrovert & funny guy... The film is co-star with another great Spanish actor Javier Cámara (from Pedro Almodóvar's "Talk to Her") and Argentine Dolores Fonzi (the young girl in "The Aura"). This is the TIFF trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FeccZq_Esk . I highly recommend you, it's a simple story but pretty well told and quite beautiful! ;)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08061257854723616026noreply@blogger.com