#  Harvard Film Archive Series: The Practice (La práctica) by Martín Rejtman 

 



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 **April 5, 2024** 

 07:00PM - 07:00PM EDT 

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 **Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street**  



 

 



 

 Introduction by **Martín Rejtman** and Producer **Victoria Marotta.** Director in Person. [$15 Special Event Tickets](https://harvardfilmarchive.eventive.org/schedule/the-practice-6597223b2434f900cbd7cae6).

 The Practice (La Práctica) Directed by **Martín Rejtman**. With Catalina Saavedra, Esteban Bigliardi, Mirta Busnelli. US/Argentina/Chile/Portugal, 2023, DCP, color, 93 min. *Spanish with English subtitles*. DCP source: Visit Films

 With an understated spiritual questioning, **The Practice** returns to the searching narrative shared by all of Rejtman’s fiction films, now with a portrait of an Argentine yoga teacher, Gustavo (Esteban Bigliardi), living and working in Chile while navigating his divorce and what seems to be a new accident- and injury-prone stage of his life. The series of poignantly comic displacements stoically suffered by Gustavo thus resonate as emblems of a deeper quest as he is faced not only with his floating status as a newly single foreigner but also a serious muscle injury and, equally grave, the anxious attention of his overbearing mother. Gustavo’s suddenly unbalanced posture is, however, gently mirrored in the pratfalls and mishaps of the other yoga-practicing characters who together comprise a community of searchers and stumblers. The more personal, intimate inflection of Rejtman’s latest work is signaled by its partially autobiographical inspiration in the filmmaker’s own decades-long practice of Ashtanga yoga (including in a Chilean retreat) and his uncanny physical resemblance to the film’s lead, veteran Argentine stage and screen actor Bigliardi.

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



 

 



 

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