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In 1973 Hugo Santiago made Les Autres, his second feature film. The film was produced in Paris by a team composed mostly of Argentines, and written together with Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Even so, the film ends up representing France in the official competition at the Cannes festival in 1974. That premiere is a great scandal in which political reasons and film criticism are confused. In this brief introduction, Hugo gives us some clues to better understand his most unknown work, and suggests that after the controversy unleashed in Cannes his career changed forever.
In 1969 Argentine filmmaker Hugo Santiago directed Invasión, his opera prima, written by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, and later settled in France. This film documents his return to Buenos Aires in 2013 to shoot his latest film, Le ciel du centaure.
Julio starts a new job at a small bookstore. Little prudent, he handles with both things as if he knew them from always. This will complicate his great project: to make an apocalyptic photo-roman.
A couple is in crisis after the recent birth of their first daughter. She prepares a surprise birthday with the intention of saving everything, but the guests, friends of his, only complicate it. Circumstances do not help the evening: A defining soccer match that some want to see, the little daughter who sleeps in the room and no one should wake up, and a strange Italian guest that the men recently met On a trip to Córdoba, they strain the wait for the night to the maximum. The guest, for mysterious reasons, is delayed longer than necessary. When When he finally arrives, that home becomes a battlefield where these Immature adults seem capable of anything to continue holding the line. appearance of being happy.
