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TL-1 Mi Reina por un Platillo Volador
TL-1 My Kingdom for a Flying Saucer
Argentina 2004
produced by
Tetsuo Lumiere
directed by Tetsuo Lumiere
starring Jorgelina Aruzzi, Evelyn Blyman, Ana Carina, Ana María Castel, Ygnacio Cervio, Daniel de la Vega, Léon Dogodny, Adrián Goldberg, Cecilia Conzález, Natalia Kim, Tetsuo Lumiere, Verónica Moreno, Olga Nani, Matías Paul, Martina Perret, Claudia Schijman, Florencia Smayenka, Amauri Sola, Ernesto Suazo
written by Tetsuo Lumiere
review by
Dale Pierce
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Tetsuo Lumiere of Argentina spoofs hismelf, low budget cinema and more
than likely the late Ed Wood in this uncanny comedy about an inept film
director who wishes to make a perfect space invasion film, due to his
fixation with War of the Worlds. Needless to say, he doesn't do it. Oh,
he tries, mind you, making stupid shorts in an effort to build up his
reputation and finances, with special note going to this horribly bad
werewolf picture, where the werewolf has a paper mache snout for a nose. Flying
saucers in his production look remarkably like those from Plan Nine From
Outer Space, and due to sort of a King Midas touch in reverse, everything he
touches turns to shit rather than gold.
In the end, the would-be king of sci-fi dies in a fire, which of course
leads to his posthumous glorification and this documentary.
Filmed in Argentina and released in Spanish, there is a version with
English subtitles though the tarnslations sometimes make mistakes. You
can still get what is going on and unintentionally, this adds a little
something to the film.
Hopefully Tetsuo will release some more stuff soon. I have heard he does
indeed have a new project coming. It is a pity he is not better known
outside South America and South American film in general has not
received the attention it deserves.
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