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An Argentine Passion: Maria Luisa Bemberg And Her Films
Editor: King, John; Editor: Bosch, Rosa
Critical Studies in Latin American and Iberian Cultures; Hardback; Book; 30 B&w Photographs
256 pages
Published: November 2000
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ISBN: 1859847889
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Maria Luisa Bemberg, who died in 1995, is one of Latin America's most popular film-makers. The only woman director in the region to have achieved consistent international success, she made her first feature at the age of fifty-eight.Born into a traditional, aristocratic Argentine family, her films focused above all on women's issues. The six features she made between 1980 and 1993 all have female leads who seek to transgress limits: from Camila O'Gorman, executed in the nineteenth century for her love of a Catholic priest, to the remarkable nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Mexico'sforemost colonial poet and intellectual, whose enquiring mind was a threat to the discipline of the Church. Bemberg was, as in the title of her second film, senora de nadie, nobody's woman.This is


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