Uruguay- Official selection 2014 Venice Film Festival (review:ENG & SPA)
SPANISH: "El 5 de Talleres", la película uruguaya que llegó al Festival de Venecia
http://mundod.lavoz.com.ar/futbol/el-5-de-talleres-la-pelicula-uruguay a-que-llego-al-festival-de-venecia
ENGLISH: http://www.venice-days.com/film.asp?id=9&id_dettaglio=420&t=EL %205%20DE%20TALLERES&lang=eng
Official Selection
EL 5 DE TALLERES - EL CINCO
by Adrián Biniez
world premiere
Argentina, Uruguay, 2014, 100', color, DCP
After being expelled during a C division match, Patón Bonassiolle, the captain and midfielder for the team Talleres de Escalada, realizes his career as a footballer has come to an end. He has played his whole life for Talleres, but neither fame nor fortune has come his way. Together with Ale - his wife - they look around for a fresh new start. But Patón needs to come to terms with the fact that this is not only the end of his football career; it's also his farewell to youth and the beginning of adulthood.
"I made my first film at 34. At the same time, a friend of mine who was a football player was playing the last games of his professional career. While I was at the beginning of a whole new world he was at the very end of a lifestyle he had been immersed in since he was a child. How does one accept the end of a world with all its routines and codes and rituals at such a young age?" [Adrián Biniez]
Patón is a professional footballer for a third-tier team who, at 35, is getting on, has made a disastrous start of the season…and has a coach who's depressed! Not Patón's wife, though: she's peppy and full of life, and Patón will be forced to make a decision that will have far-reaching consequences on his life, and his marriage. With this film portrait of a middle-class Argentinian couple, Adrián Biniez, a director acclaimed for his first feature, Gigante, treats us to a bittersweet comedy, humorous and well-paced, about being over the hill at forty, starring two rising Argentinian actors (Esteban Lamothe and Julieta Zylberberg). A lot of football, a lot of ribbing, a lot of beer and barbecues, not to mention picnics on the pampas. A film short on pretensions and long on humanity. [Sylvain Auzou]
ADRIÁN BINIEZ (1974, Remedios de Escalada, Argentina) now lives in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 2005 he made his first short film 8 Hours. In 2009 he released his first feature film, Gigante, which received several international awards, including the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
2014 El 5 de talleres
2009 Gigante
2007 Total disponibilidad (short)
2005 8 horas (short)
Aurélie Dard
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EL 5 DE TALLERES - EL CINCO en You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq7WKj8I3ks