Martín Rejtman’s “Copacabana” had a great audience and press success consolidating Proa’s will to contribute in broadening Argentine independent cinema scene. The documentary tells the story of Bolivian community in Buenos Aires. The city becomes strange, unrecognizable and the climax of the film is reached at the choreography of the dances.

Last screening: Saturday 10th, April – 7:00 pm.

Information: auditorio@proa.org
General Admission: $10 / Students and retired $8
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©Martín Rejtman

Synopsis
Every year in mid October the Bolivian community in Buenos Aires celebrates its most important Patronal festivity: the party of Nuestra Señora de Copacabana. Groups from all over the country, some even arriving from Bolivia, get together in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Charrua for a big parade, in a celebration that transcends religion.

Press releases:

“Copacabana” de Rejtman, nuevas funciones
http://www.demasiadocine.com/agenda/copacabana-de-rejtman-nuevas-funciones/

Nuevas funciones de Copacabana en Fundación Proa
http://ar.news.yahoo.com/s/17022010/40/n-entertain-presentan-malba-sexta-edicion-quot.html

Martín Rejtman: “Nunca me corrí del lugar de observador
http://www.lacapital.com.ar/ed_senales/2010/2/edicion_70/contenidos/noticia_5031.html

Copacabana, un documental con la impronta de Martín Rejtman
http://uol.elargentino.com/nota-77122-seccion-114-Copacabana-un-documental-con-la-impronta-de-Martin-Rejtman.html

Copacabana
http://www.leedor.com/notas/3411—copacabana.html

Hoja de ruta
http://www.estoesunbingo.com.ar/2010/02/copacabana/

Se agregaron nuevas funciones para ver el documental Copacabana
http://www.buenosairesladob.com.ar/?p=4494

Cuando Rejtman se asoma
http://www.subjetiva.com.ar/subjetiva/view_article.php?id=2158

Hago mal a los artistas
http://asieslavanguardia.blogspot.com/

Argentina: Película Copacabana sobre comunidad boliviana
http://la-opinion-argentina.blogspot.com/2010/01/argentina-pelicula-copacabana-sobre.html

Se proyecta Copacabana de Martín Rejtman
http://weblogs.clarin.com/agenda-n/archives/2010/01/se_proyecta_copacabana_de_martin_rejtman.html

El documental de Martín Rejtman sobre la fiesta patronal de la comunidad boliviana en Argentina
http://cine.argentina.ar/contenidos/127-Copacabana/

Copacabana, una película de Martín Rejtman en la Fundación Proa
http://revistaarchivosdelsur.blogspot.com/2010/01/copacabana-una-pelicula-de-martin.html

New Argentina Cinema
http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/revistaweb/its_film/aguilar

Fuera de todas las convenciones
http://www.clarin.com/diario/2010/01/22/espectaculos/c-02124668.htm

Martín Rejtman estrena hoy su primer documental

Con Rapado, Silvia Prieto y Los guantes mágicos, Martín Rejtman se transformó en uno de los directores más importantes del cine argentino
http://www.revistadebate.com.ar/2010/01/22/2597.php

Copacabana, lo nuevo de Martín Rejtman

http://www.cinelatinoamericano.org/texto.aspx?cod=8425

Festividad boliviana en imágenes
http://www.culturar.com/notas.php?id=2409&PHPSESSID=5700779214e67706f8d513c5d207fe29

Martín Rejtman cuenta cómo hizo “Copacabana”
http://lentecreativo.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/martin-rejtman-cuenta-como-hizo-copacabana/

Distante como el altiplano

http://www.escribiendocine.com/criticas/distante-como-el-altiplano

El extraño recorrido del film Copacabana
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1224928

Cine: Entrevista al cineasta Martín Rejtman
http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/espectaculos/5-16733-2010-01-23.html

Ciclo: Estreno exclusivo del documental “Copacabana”, de Martín Rejtman
http://www.elreverso.com.ar/index.php?campo=ciclo&valor=2784

Copacabana
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934098.html?categoryid=31&cs=1

“Copacabana”, de Martín Rejtman
http://www.wipe.com.ar/agenda/detalle/28528/2010-01-30

Copacabana, de Martín Rejtman

http://www.otroscines.com/criticas_detalle.php?idnota=3757

3 preguntas. Martín Rejtman
http://www.losinrockuptibles.com/alocables.htm

Entrevista a Martin Rejtman. A propósito de Copacabana
http://lafuga.cl/entrevista-a-martin-rejtman/39

Las estéticopoliticas
http://lafuga.cl/las-esteticopoliticas/37

Cine Argentino 2010: Todos los estrenos del año
http://www.escribiendocine.com/noticias/cine-argentino-2010-todos-los-estrenos-del-ano

Copacabana, lo nuevo de Martín Rejtman
http://observadorglobal.com/momentos-revelados-n4967.html

Informe Especial: Todo los Estrenos de Cine en 2010
http://cubaout.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/informe-especial-todo-los-estrenos-de-cine-en-2010/

Un verano de película

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1216339

Lo que vendrá
http://www.revista-noticias.com.ar/comun/notaseccion.php?ed=1722&art=1064

Copacabana, filme sobre fiesta boliviana, debuta en Argentina
http://www.laprensa.com.bo/noticias/03-01-10/noticias.php?nota=03_01_10_cult1.php

Estreno “Copacabana”, de Martín Rejtman
http://cineconmcfly.com.ar/2009/12/estreno-copacabana-de-martin-rejtman.html

El cine resistió con el cuchillo entre los dientes
http://www.criticadigital.com.ar/index.php?secc=nota&nid=35236

Informe Especial: Todo los Estrenos de Cine en 2010
http://www.escribiendocine.com/articulos/informe-especial-todo-los-estrenos-de-cine-en-2010

COPACABANA, de Martín Rejtman. LA MAGIA DE TUS BAILES
http://www.leercine.com.ar/nota.asp?id=230

Copacabana
http://www.revistawatt.com.ar/webs/agenda/8

Copacabana, de Martin Rejtman, se estrena en Fundacion PROA
http://ahoracine.com.ar/blog/2010/01/copacabana-de-martin-rejtman-se-estrena-en-fundacion-proa/

On the director

Martin Rejtman was born in Buenos Aires in 1961 and studied cinema in the New York University (NYU). Then worked as a assistant of assembly in Cinecittá, Italy. Its feature films are “Rapado” (1992), “Silvia Prieto” (1999) and “Los Guantes Mágicos” (2003). In the 2007 he finishes “Copacabana” and in the 2009 codirects with Federico León, “Entrenamiento elemental para actores”, TV movie premiered commercially in El camarín de las musas in September of 2009.

Director Martín Rejtman created a universe with his fictions. You know it, you’ve seen it (if not, you should know you’re missing out on something). Now then, the world, such as it is out there (far away from screenplays), has just created a director: the Rejtman who, with Copacabana – his debut in the field of documentaries-, gives us not only the most luminous Argentine film in a long time, but also a new version of himself, in which his usual powers of observation return, but hand in hand with extraordinary freedom, warmth and joy. Rejtman, combining modesty and fascination, tells a happy tale with a sad ending, or a story which, while unable to reach complete happiness, offers countless wonder-moments of those that deserve to happen in front of a camera; tells of the Bolivian community in Buenos Aires and the festivities of Our Lady of Copacabana, and manages to carry the spirit of the prodigious scene of the dance under the rain in Shara (Kawase Naomi) to a fifty-five minute running time. Marcelo Panozzo

On his work

Fragments of the book “Martin Rejtman: the waning movies”, by David Oubiña:

“Before it existed the ‘new Argentine cinema, “Rapado” existed;. (….) Although it was not conceived as the manifesto of a new movies movement, that debut was -in definition of its director- ‘a militant movie’ that denounced with all that the movies of the 80´s ignored.

Which was the news of this movie? It would be able to summarize: Rapado takes the plot motive of Thieves of bicycles (the famous film of Vittorio de Sica), but that is only a pretext because the sobriety of its style it’s been learned in the films of Ozu and Bresson. Rejtman said: ‘My movies do not present a problems, the movies are the problem’. In both works, each element is despoiled of the value that had before entering to the universe of the film, where it will be assigned a new function and will establish new relations.

“Si Doli regresa a casa” and “Rapado” present a cut with the previous movies at the same time that establishes the bases of a poetics, “Silvia Prieto” and “Los Guantes Mágicos” suppose an inflection that is so much a deepening as a development of that program. The sever narrative of the first one Rejtman is channeled finally in a form of desolate comedy.

In “Silvia Prieto” and “Los guantes mágicos”, Rejtman works with a microcosm of characters that reappear, from a minimum of situations circulate of as unstoppable as impassive way. The differences, in every case, are in the order of the excess. Los Guantes Mágicos irritates the style of the previous film: is more openly choir, more extravagant, more scatterbrained and, also, more inconsolable.

In its perfect rationality and in its luminous order, these films constitute a utopian community, as if they were small films whose mission would not be to reproduce our world, but to denounce it as a coarse copy. The people, the places and the things, enter new relations and return more surprising exactly there where they turn out to be recognizable.”

List of credits

Direction: Martin Rejtman
Produced by: Ruda Cine and Martin Rejtman
Associated producer: Alta Definición Argentina
Producing: Violet Bava, Rosa Martínez Rivero and Martin Rejtman
Executive production: Rosa Martínez Rivero
Photography and Camera: Diego Poleri
Sound: Jessica Suarez and Javier Farina
Assembly: Martin Mainoli
Investigation: Nico Chausovsky
Assistance of production: Iván Eibuszyc
Graphic design: Germán Ruiz
Duration: 56 minutes – Argentina, 2007