Las modelos (film)

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Las modelos
Las modelos poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster.
Directed by Vlasta Lah
Screenplay byVlasta Lah
Abelardo Arias
Story byVlasta Lah
Produced byVíctor E. Catrani
Oscar Mario Guevara
Justo Martínez
StarringMercedes Alberti
Greta Ibsen
Cinematography Francis Boeniger
Music byLucio Milena
Release date
  • 17 October 1963 (1963-10-17)(Buenos Aires)
Running time
85 minutes
Country Argentina
LanguageSpanish

Las modelos (Spanish for "the models") is a 1963 film directed and written by Vlasta Lah, the first woman director of sound films in Argentina and the only woman filmmaker in 1960s Latin America. [1] It was her second and last film, released after her 1960 directorial debut Las furias . The film tells the story of Sonia and Ana, two young haute couture models, who are played by two real-life models instead of actresses. [1]

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Critical reception

Unlike Las furias, which was poorly received by critics, Las modelos received mostly positive reviews. [1] Radiolandia magazine declared that the theme of the film was of "appreciable depth", celebrating that its the struggle of young women who earn a living on their own in big cities. [1] The review of newspaper Crítica read: "In the manner of a short novel, haute couture in a modest approach." [2] In a less enthusiastic review, La Nación equated the film to a television play and described it as an "elementary story loaded with ingenuity and conventionalism". [2]

Writing in 2001, Raúl Manrupe and María Alejandra Portela described the film as a "boring point of view that wants to function as social criticism." [2] In a 2022 poll of The 100 Greatest Films of Argentine Cinema—organized by magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film FestivalLas modelos reached the joint 62nd spot, meaning it received one vote. [3] It was voted by filmmaker Lorena Jozami, who described it as a "novel film ahead of its time with strong female characters that defy the androcentric trend of cinema to this day." [4]

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