Historias extraordinarias. [Part 1] /
Imbued with the spirit of Robert Louis Stevenson and filtered through the sensibilities of Jorge Luis Borges and Thomas Pynchon, three unconnected, voiceover-narrated tales each start off innocently enough and then veer into ever stranger, more fascinating realms. X arrives in a small town and witne...
| Uniform Title: | Historias extraordinarias (Motion picture). |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In Spanish, with subtitles in English. |
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New York, NY :
Grasshopper Film,
2008.
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Imbued with the spirit of Robert Louis Stevenson and filtered through the sensibilities of Jorge Luis Borges and Thomas Pynchon, three unconnected, voiceover-narrated tales each start off innocently enough and then veer into ever stranger, more fascinating realms. X arrives in a small town and witnesses a violent act; Z takes the job of a dead manager and discovers that he had a notebook written in code and a map; H is hired to go down a river and investigate a series of mysterious monoliths built on the shore. In this adventurous experiment in storytelling, secret identities, missing persons, lost treasures, exotic beasts and desperate criminals are only a few of the elements woven into a grand tapestry of mysteries. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title screen (viewed January 30, 2023). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (84 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 01:23:03 |
| Awards: | Won 2009 Miami Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, Ibero-American Competition Won 2008 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema Audience Award, Best Argentinian Film Won 2009 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina, Best Screenplay, Original |