A Stop in the City

A Stop in the City

1935. Argentina. Directed by Alberto de Zavalía. “This is the work of a cinephile—something most unusual in the mid-1930s—the first film of a director who would never again prove so free and inventive. The shadow of a certain European ‘poetic’ cinema of ports and prostitutes, and (to this writer) of Tay Garnett’s Her Man, achieves real charm out of amateurish acting, rough editing and non-mixed sound. A curiosity, perhaps, but one not easily forgotten“ (Edgardo Cozarinsky). In Spanish; English subtitles. 70 min.