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Buenos Aires Vice Versa (1996)
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Buenos Aires Vice Versa (1996)
Original name: Buenos Aires Viceversa
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 122 min.
Story: This is Buenos Aires, its characters, its history, its reality. A complex movie for a complex city, depicted in the character's language, and in their relationship with the present and the past
Style: touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy, independent film
Plot: job seeking, life is a bitch, society, urban, city life, state affairs, female nudity, fascist, homosexual, motel, ignorance, attempted rape, police brutality, boxing match, blind girl, porter, operation condor, parallel story, dictatorship, camera, female full frontal nudity
Time: 90s
Place: latin america, argentina

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Night Shapes (1999)
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Duration: 101 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, France, Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
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