Gastón Solnicki

Gastón Solnicki
Born1978 (age 45–46)
Buenos Aires
Nationality
  • Argentina
  • Poland
OccupationFilm director
Years active2007–

Gastón Solnicki (born 1978) is an Argentine film director. Coming from an immigrant Jewish family, he studied photography at International Center of Photography, as well as film directing at Tisch School of the Arts in New York.[1]

His first short was Liliana.Rebecca (2007), a short film made with only two actors. He later made the documentaries Süden (2008) and Papirosen (2011), both of which were critically acclaimed.[2]

His real breakthrough, however, came with Kékszakállú (2016), his first narrative feature, which depicted the coming-of-age of a circle of adolescent girls in Buenos Aires.[3] The film was screened in the Orizzonti section at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, yet did not win any awards. It was later shown at festivals in Rotterdam, New York, Vancouver and Thessaloniki.[1][4]

References

  1. ^ a b Bérénice Reynaud, "Vancouver 2016: The Daughters Generation," Senses of Cinema (82), March 2017.
  2. ^ Morgan Wilcock, "Review: Papirosen," Film Comment, 24 January 2014.
    Robert Koehler, "Review: ‘Suden’," Variety, 24 April 2008.
    ———, "Review: ‘Papirosen’," Variety, 10 October 2011.
    Mark Peranson, "Family Viewing," Moving Image Source (Museum of the Moving Image), 11 January 2012.
  3. ^ José Teodoro, "Kékszakállú (Gastón Solnicki, Argentina)," cinema-scope 69, 2017.
  4. ^ Carmen Gray, "International Film Festival Rotterdam: Bread and Mirrors," Senses of Cinema, March 2017.
    Daniel Walber, "Bluebeard Revisited: Gastón Solnicki’s Kékszakállú," Brooklyn Rail, 1 November 2016.
    Jonathan Murray, "The Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Web Exclusive)," Cineaste XLII, no. 2 (2017).


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