#  Harvard Film Archive Screening: Silvia Prieto by Martin Rejtman  

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 6, 2024** 

 07:00PM - 07:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street**  



 

 



 

 **Martín Rejtman** and **Carlos Gutiérrez** in Conversation. Recently Restored. [$15 Special Event Tickets.](https://harvardfilmarchive.eventive.org/schedule/silvia-prieto-659722a38996350083e3c1f4)

 Silvia Prieto. Directed by **Martín Rejtman**. With Rosario Bléfari, Valeria Bertuccelli, Vicentico. Argentina, 1999, DCP, color, 92 min. Spanish with English subtitles.

 Rejtman’s effervescent masterpiece is a glittering screwball-inspired comedy of shifting identities that centers around the ardent efforts of its strong eponymous heroine to suddenly lead her life in a radically new direction. Everything goes differently when she discovers there is more than one Silvia Prieto. Buoyed by its fanciful, rapid-fire dialogue and at times hilariously absurd story, Silvia Prieto is saturated by a Pop sensibility that belies a gently ironic fascination with bright logos, television slogans and the rich contradictions of consumer culture. Rejtman’s deep appreciation of nonprofessional actors led him to prominent, popular Argentine singer-musicians in key roles, including Vicentico and Rosario Bléfari, who brings a spontaneous grace to her portrayal of Silvia Prieto as a young woman spinning at a crossroads of her own design. Guided by Bléfari’s mellifluous voice in a wonderfully disjointed voiceover, Silvia Prieto offers an affectionate portrait of romantic folly that, at its end, reveals an unexpected bridge to Rejtman’s lesser-known documentary work.

 The Harvard Film Archive will also screen a beautiful English-subtitled 35mm print that now forms part of the HFA’s Cinema Tropical Collection.

 Presented in collaboration with the [Harvard Film Archive](https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/silvia-prieto-2024-04).



 

 



 

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