Daniel Mantovani has achieved success like few authors before him. Enormous fame, wealth, and now, a Nobel Prize. But something bothers Daniel—living the high life in Barcelona, he wonders if he’s still challenging himself as a man and a writer. When he receives a letter from his rural small town of Salas, a good seven hours from Buenos Aires, a world away, he decides to accept an invitation to receive the town’s “Distinguished Citizen” award. After all, his fiction takes place in the town, so at the very least he owes it to them, and himself, to visit his geographical muse for the first time in forty years. Like the best stories, nothing goes as planned, as Daniel meets old flames, new friends, and some of the most off-kilter characters that even he couldn’t imagine, in this warm and hilarious comedy. Argentina’s official submission to the 89th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Directors' Biographies
Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn: Gastón Duprat (born 1969, Bahia Blanca, Argentina) and Mariano Cohn (b. 1975, Villa Ballester, Argentina), are creative partners who directed the feature films Yo Presidente ('06), The Artist ('08), The Man Next Door ('09), and Querida voy a comprar cigarrillos y vuelvo ('11).
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