Anna Marie de la Fuente Argentine filmmaker Seba De Caro’s latest outing in the horror genre, “El Viejo” (“The Old Man”) taps collective and childhood memories of Argentina’s military dictatorship and the haunted house fable.“For me, the possibility of narrating a story that pits childhood against the most terrifying past in the history of my country is a unique experience,” he said. “To some extent, it’s my own story,” he told Variety, noting that since he was born in 1975, images of Argentina’s cruel dictatorship under Lt.
Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla are embedded among his childhood memories.“El Viejo” is among six Latin American projects that participate in the inaugural Sanfic-Morbido Lab, which runs online March 18-26.
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