Elementary Training for Actors

Elementary Training for Actors
Elementary Training for Actors

Ever thought you knew everything there was to know about Method Acting? Think again as Argentine filmmakers Martín Rejtman and Federico León cast their caustic eye on a child acting coach who shares the secrets of his successes.

Thought you knew everything there was to know about Method Acting? Think again. Argentina has provided an acting coach who makes you realise Stanislavski and Adler only touched the surface of the intricacies of The Method. Meet Sergio, an acting teacher who works solely with children, and here shares his secrets on how to train them. The youngsters undertake a series of exercises as Sergio reflects on De Sica's Bicycle Thieves, on overacting and on the challenges of working with child actors. Two of Argentina's most distinguished directors, Martín Rejtman (Copacabana, The Magic Gloves and Silvia Prieto) and Federico León (Everything Together and Stars) unite in this remarkable (and often shockingly funny) dissection of the language of acting.

Maria Delgado

Director

Martín Rejtman, Federico León

Cast

Fabián Arenillas, Carlos Portaluppi, Matías Delagado

Country

Argentina

Writer

Martín Rejtman, Federico León

Running time

52min

Year

2009

Screening with

Removal

Avant-gardist Pere Portabella (creator of last year's The Silence Before Bach) here focuses on the process of moving house. Only what precisely does that mean when you're talking about a museum? Portabella's camera meticulously captures the packing up of the García Lorca museum in Granada. Objects and spaces are transformed before our eyes as a world is temporarily packed away and prepared for a new life.

Director

Pere Portabella

Country

Spain

Running time

20min

Year

2008