Festival 3 Continents
Compétition internationale
47th edition
NOV. 21>29, 2025, Nantes France

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Pin Boy
(Parapalos)

by Ana POLIAK

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Ana Poliak tell the story of Adrián, a young man who arrives from the provinces to work in Buenos Aires. Immediately, in the extraordinary opening sequence where a stark naked Adrián is awaiting the medical check-up without which he will not be allowed to work, we find the key to the film: the body and its labour power. Adrián finds a job in local bowling alley but, before he starts, he has first to be trained by his peers. The geometrical precision of the mise-en-scène is surprising: the bowling lanes serve as a perimeter that fixes a physical and symbolic distance between those who play and those who work. Poliak’s sensory intelligence consists in revealing to us the reverse shot of the game: it also involves observing the corporal habits of the workers as much as listening to the discourses through which they interpret their work. RK

  • Titre français
    Pin Boy
  • Original title
    Parapalos
  • Titre international
    Pin Boy
  • Scénario
    Ana POLIAK, Santiago LOZA, Adrián SUÁREZ
  • Photo
    Víctor GONZÁLEZ, Alejandro FERNÁNDEZ MOUJÁN
  • Montage
    Ana POLIAK
  • Assistant réalisateur
    Lorena MORICONI
  • Son
    Luis Ernesto CORAZZA
  • Interprétation
    Adrián SUÁREZ, Nancy TORRES, Roque CHAPPAY, José Luís SEYTÓN GUZMÁN, Armando QUIROGA, Dorian WALDEMAR
  • Production
    Morocha Films
  • Directeur artistique
    Alejandra TAUBÍN
  • Print
    Cinémathèque royale de Belgique : access@cinematek.be
  • Support de projection
    35 mm

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