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The Bitter Stems ( Spanish language: Los Tallos Amargos) is a 1956 Argentine film noir directed by Fernando Ayala. The screenplay, written by Sergio Leonardo, was based on a novel by journalist Adolfo Jasca . The film stars Carlos Cores as a journalist with an inferiority complex who partners with a Hungarian immigrant, played by Vassili ...
Jan 23, 2016 · The Bitter Stems: Directed by Fernando Ayala. With Carlos Cores, Julia Sandoval, Vassili Lambrinos, Gilda Lousek. A washed up reporter teams up with an immigrant from Hungary to start a fake journalism by correspondence school.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Fernando Ayala
- 2016-01-23
Feb 17, 2022 · The 1957 thriller The Bitter Stems (Los Tallos Amargos) is one of the most accomplished and compelling of the international film noir genre. Film studies professors looking to show their students an example of international film noir should screen The Bitter Stems in their classrooms.
- Fernando Ayala
- Not Rated
- Carlos Cores, Vassili Lambrinos
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Nov 19, 2021 · The innovative and evocative score, combining elements of tango, jazz, and classical music, is one of the first film scores by legendary composer Astor Piazolla. After more than 60 years in darkness, The Bitter Stems (Los tallos amargos) is finally restored and ready for rediscovery.
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- Carlos Cores
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Nov 11, 2021 · November 11, 2021 / Steve Geise / No Comments. Alfredo Gasper is a hard-working newspaper reporter in Argentina who has become disillusioned about the trajectory of his stalled career. When he’s drowning his sorrows at an upscale bar one night, he chats with the friendly Hungarian bartender and former journalist named Paar Liudas.
Los Tallos amargos (The Bitter Stems, 1956) is a bleak and beautifully filmed Argentinian noir named by American Cinematographer in 1999 as one of the best shot movies from 1950-1997. Tracking the downward spiral of an insecure journalist trying to make a quick buck, it is full of murder, deceit and a wildly inventive score by the legendary ...
Fernando Ayala sows noir nihilism with Poe trappings and reaps a gorgeously-shot Argentinian crime quagmire that earns a place among the greats. The Bitter Stems unfolds as a suffocating narrative spiral: expressionistic dream imagery, couched in interspersed flashbacks, all contextualizing a train ride towards dark fates and psychological scars.
