Eldorado (Argentina/2021). Address: Francisco Bouzas. Script: Luciano Salerno and Francisco Bouzas. Photography: Willmer Williams. Edition: Jimena Garcia Molt and Francisco Bouzas. List: Lautaro Mackinze, Caesar Languidey. duration: 82 minutes. Qualification: suitable for all public. Our opinion: buena.
It is not easy to label a film as Eldorado. Although the idea of blurring the borders between fiction and documentary has been a trend (and today the term sounds more appropriate than ever) in the universe of independent cinema in recent years, this case has singularities that distinguish it from the average, above all, related to the lack of prejudice to mutate, to incorporate diverse narrative materials (fiction, mockumentary, family archive images) in a polyphonic narrative that flows naturally despite its constant rudder changes and where all the stories that appear seem to have a similar weight, even when barely suggested through an isolated plane.
Like pieces of a puzzle, they appear in Eldorado the reference to the Howard Hawks classic reinforced with a musical theme that accompanies the final titles, a trip to Misiones motivated by the desire to meet once more, a sequence that might fit perfectly in a good mystery or horror movie, another that knows how to exploit the indisputable influence of the route in the cinema and also a series of encounters between characters with very different origins and life histories in which humor and the possibility of coexistence sprout, of communication that difference for once fails to interrupt. The director Federico Bouzas is part of Hace Muerto Cine, an independent collective that has already produced a dozen works in which these dialogues with a reality that exceeds the inner circle are also relevant.