Argentine film director and screenwriter best known for the film Infancia Clandestina (Clandestine Childhood).

Directed Infancia Clandestina, a film that frames Argentina's military dictatorship as backdrop to the intimate coming-of-age of children living clandestinely.

The available review reads Infancia Clandestina as a film split between political backdrop and the intimate coming-of-age of clandestine children. The reviewer values the film's focus on intimacy over grand revolutionary narratives. Overall appraisal is mixed (3/5): praised for thematic depth, critiqued for a sketched plot.

For:Fans of Argentine cinema, political dramas, coming-of-age stories, and film criticism readers.

 Infancia Clandestina boils down to this, a plot that seems only sketched for a film split in two, on one side the struggle for freedom and on the other the clandestine childhood of the two little ones, perhaps even more painful than the political activism of the parents, a film about the revolution where the revolution is only at the margins, it is the backdrop of a missed youth, of a Bildungsroman that suddenly unfolds, of a boy, Juan/Ernesto, who sees his love for an Argentine girl fade away because of the clandestinity in which he is forced to live.

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