Title: En Busca del Oscar ('Searching for Oscar')
Original Title: En Busca del Óscar
Year: 2018
Info
- Country: Spain
- Length: 72 Minutes (1 hour 12 min)
- Genre: Documentary
- Studios: Calibrando Producciones
Plot
Documentary film that, in a mixture of reality and fiction, tells the story of Óscar Peyrou, the president of the Spanish Association of the Cinematic Press and critic who makes his articles in a rather peculiar way. To write your film reviews you do not need to see the movies, but just watching the poster is worth it. The mother of his childs died tow tears ago, a year after he abandoned her for a younger girl. Now he lives in an apartment in Madrid alone and full of blame because of the thing he did. Film festivals are the only reason for him to live, but something that could put in danger his journeys emerged some time ago.
Directed by Octavio Guerra, it has been one of the 7 films selected to be screened at the Berlin Critics' Week of 2018. It is the first Spanish film to make it into this selection.
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Videos
'Searching for Oscar' Trailer #2
November 26 2018
July 31 2018
Photos
Trivia
The project was born in a film festival
This documentary portrays in a collateral way the world of films festivals, and of the badged press in there. It was in the Chicago Film Festival where the director and the protagonist met each other.
Spanish Pioneer
It has been one of the 7 films selected to be screened at the Berlin Critics' Week of 2018. It is the first Spanish film to make it into this selection.
Between the Real and the Fiction
The director and the protagonist admit that the story contains "narrative procedures similar to narration", but also that the documentary is "full of reality".
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