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The Man Next Door
Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat 2009
Categories: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
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Run time: 103 min. | aka: El Hombre de al Lado | Argentina | Language: Spanish with English subtitles | color
WORLD CINEMA CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD: DRAMATIC

Leonardo, a successful industrial designer, lives with his family in an architectural wonder, a midcentury Le Corbusier home. One morning, he wakes to an irksome noise and is appalled to discover that workmen next door are constructing a large window that faces directly into his home. Leonardo protests, using a number of excuses (privacy, building codes, his wife), in an attempt to coerce his neighbor, Victor, into scrapping his plan. But Victor just wants a patch of sun to catch some rays. Thus, one man’s light is another man’s blight.

Enamored of architecture, the film is meticulously designed. Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat give it a carefully crafted weirdness as well as a figurative quality. Its caustic humor comes in contemplating why the window completely undermines Leonardo. Does it reveal his arrogance, affectation, and lack of compassion; or dispel his bourgeois illusion of power? The Man Next Door offers a biting critique of moral shallowness—and what happens when thou dost not love thy neighbor’s window.
Film Contact
Victoria Aizenstat
Email: productora2@maizproducciones.com.ar
3 pictures Pictures
Screenings
time event code city venue calendar
12:00 PM     Sun, Jan 24
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Park City
Egyptian Theatre + add to cal
3:00 PM     Tue, Jan 26
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Sundance Resort
Screening Room, Sundance Resort + add to cal
12:00 PM     Wed, Jan 27
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Park City
Holiday Village Cinema IV + add to cal
6:00 PM     Thu, Jan 28
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Park City
Egyptian Theatre + add to cal
11:59 PM     Fri, Jan 29
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Salt Lake City
Broadway Centre Cinemas VI + add to cal
1:00 PM     Sun, Jan 31
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Park City
Holiday Village Cinema I + add to cal
About the film
Cast & Crew
director
Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat
 
screenwriter
Andres Duprat
Cast
Rafael Spregelburd, Daniel Aráoz, Eugenia Alonso, Inés Budassi, Lorenza Acuña, Eugenio Scopel
executive producer
María Belén de la Torre
producer
Fernando Sokolowicz
editor
Jerónimo Carranza
music
Sergio Pángaro
Audience Buzz
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Featured Review
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Leonardo is a successful industrial designer who lives in an equally exceptional home with his wife and daughter. The home is modern and minimal, featuring lots of windows and open space without feeling as though it were pulled from an Ikea catalogue. One morning Leonardo is woken up by an obnoxious pounding noise. He discovers that his neighbor Victor is installing a window to “let in some rays.” The window faces directly into Leonardo’s house and instantly becomes a point of contention in the two’s relationship and slowly reveals the other cracks in Leonardo’s seemingly perfect existence. Each and every scene of The Man Next Door has been created with an eye for design. Early on it’s very clear that the beautiful composition of The Man Next Door is no accident. Although this attention to detail is astounding, other aspects of the film seemed to lag. The film has a number of details that are never fully explained, which left me wondering why certain aspects weren’t edited out. And with the exception of Victor, many of the characters seem underdeveloped or just uninteresting. Man Next Door is a visual delight, but the plot does not hold up very well during the 110 minute run time. –Jeanette D. Moses http://sundance.bside.com/2010/films/themannextdoor_sundance2010
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