Noting that ‘Glaxo,’ from São Paulo-based RT Features and Rei Pictures in Buenos Aires, is set entirely in Argentina but shot in Brazil, Naishtat laments: Argentina is 'a country with a great filmmaking tradition and it is now in very serious danger'
By John Hopewell, Roberto Prieto
Lali Espósito in 'Glaxo' Courtesy of RT Features, Rei Pictures “At what precise moment had Peru fucked itself up?” Nobel Prize winning author Mario Vargas Llosa famously asks at the beginning of “Conversation at The Cathedral.”
In “Glaxo,” one of the most awaited of Latin American films this year, director Benjamín Naishtat charts what he describes as the whole of Argentina’s loss of innocence, which again has its origins in 1950s dictatorship and is equally pervasive.
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