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Love of the Enemies

A world of no redemption. Hell for all.

synopsis

The world spins. A police detective with a rarely powerful imagination is investigating a series of random chaotic events, all of them related to the influence of the moon on human behavior. A singer is forced to abandon his house due to a rat invasion. Once at his new home, across the Buenos Aires Zoo, he develops an obsession for the lion, observing him from his balcony every day. In the midst of a wave of unexplained disappearances the singer’s brother goes missing along with the rest of his family. The singer meets and strikes up a friendship with the police detective and together the pair explores one of the poorest neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, a world that belongs to the singer’s past and where his ex-girlfriend still resides: “the projects”. At “the projects”, they dream about curvy women, try to solve the mystery of the massive disappearances and get puzzled to discover who’s to blame for it, and where they keep the missing people. Once the mystery is solved, they will join an army of outcasts. The time for action finally comes on the full moon night of Christmas Eve. The outcasts move forward in their mission: a lunar frenzy, involving sex, luxury cars and medieval swords. When the sun finally emerges, the frenzy is over; and the singer and his girlfriend kiss as if the world was about to end.

Director’statement

I’m tired of cold heart cinema. I want to make a passionate film mined with life and death impulses. I want to show courage, passionate lovers’ dialogues. It’s a film of the night, written under the influence of the moon. It is not a dark movie, it is lunar. It’s a police investigation and a love story - in which the moon is also one of the characters: they are all affected by it. I would like to work with the actors in a way where they can truly feel that influence. I am developing a hypnosis-lead acting method. It is absolutely experimental. We are working with a psychiatrist, who is teaching me persuasion methods. I want to recycle the commonplace and the cliché. To develop a story presenting a logic of its own: a new South American mythology. Rats, lions, medieval swords, disappearances, sex, love, intensity. The passion and intensity of Hell and Heaven, on Earth. I want to show a new world, a new form of love never seen before. Kissing before the end of the world. I want to show how old rites are alive and influencing social behaviors, how a brand new world can be inhabited inside the one we already know. How light and darkness coexist and are one and the same. How revolt can be a part of the daily life. How the moon unleashes the heart of men. This is a revolutionary film. The revolt that lays hidden in the depths of the human heart and is willing to be freed every night or morning. Does anyone want to change the state of things or do we just want to fuck and have fun? It is hard to say. Even for the characters in the film. This film is a bet to chaos, to the collapse of narrative. It can be shot in a thousand different ways. It is a free film. It was liberated from the jail of the good cinema standards. We can shoot it in 35mm, we can shoot in HD, we can do it in mini dv. Fast paced, slow paced. I love unexplored roads. I will explore every way, every door that the characters will open for me. Let’s have fun doing it and something bright, and new, and pure will be born. The day when we all, men, animals, ghosts, will walk and crawl naked towards the sea will finally come. And yet, that will be a day of victory.

TFL PROGRAMME:
FeatureLab 2012
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