Carlos sorin

Born in 1944 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Carlos Sorin studied Cinematography at the National University of La Plata. He started as an assistant to director Alberto Fischerman, but soon realized that he had more chances to earn a living in the field of advertising, so he concentrated for many years in this field.

In 1986, he shot the medium-length film for television La era del ñandú , about a drug that supposedly lengthened life, which was sold in Argentina. That same year he made his feature film debut with The King’s Movie , a movie within a movie about a young filmmaker’s desperate attempt to shoot the biography of a 19th-century French visionary. He won the Award for the best first film in Venice and the Goya for the best foreign and Spanish-language film.

Established as one of the most promising filmmakers in Argentina, he manages to sign Daniel Day-Lewis for Sonrisas de New Jersey , his second job. The actor from My Left Foot played a dentist who travels through Latin America. But he had a poor reception from critics and the public, which caused Sorin to return to advertising for more than a decade.

He returned to the cinema triumphantly in 2002 with Historias mínimas , his best work, the shooting of which he undertook after rejecting numerous projects. It combines the journeys of three everyday characters: an old man in search of his dog, a salesman who brings a cake to the son of a client, and a woman who participates in a contest. It was a turning point in his filmography, being completely different from his previous works, due to its narrative simplicity, its style close to documentary, and the use of mostly non-professional actors.

Along the same lines are La ventana and Bombón, el perro . He was not without criticism in his country for using inexperienced amateurs instead of actors, but he constantly explains why he chose this option. “It is one thing for an actor to achieve spontaneity and another to capture true moments. When Juan Villegas , who in real life took care of a garage, receives an award in a sequence from El perro , he makes a gesture of unrepeatable astonishment. It didn’t matter that he was It was about 400 extras: he had never expected so many people to applaud him. Those are the moments of truth, maybe few, that I manage to capture in some movies,” recalls Sorin.

With El gato disappears , Sorín remains faithful to his bittersweet style and his plot simplicity. But it is shot with an atypical thriller tone in Argentine cinema.

Carlos Sorin is the father of the composer Nicolás Sorin , who is involved in the musical production of some of his films.