Alejandro Agresti Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Composer (Music Score), Cinematographer, Producer, Screenwriter

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The Lake House

Crew: Director

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dylan Walsh, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: Two people develop an unusual relationship that bends the boundaries of time and place in this romantic fantasy. Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock) is a doctor who lives in a beautiful home by a lake. Forced to move elsewhere, she requests that any correspondence that arrives at the lake house be Read More

6/16/06
Valentin

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rodrigo Noya, Carmen Maura, Alejandro Agresti, Julieta Cardinali

Synopsis: Venerable Argentinian filmmaker Alejandro Agresti turns his lens to his own childhood in this nostalgic coming-of-age tale. Set in the director's hometown of Buenos Aires circa 1964, Valentin centers around its title character (and ostensible stand-in for the director), a nine-year-old boy (Rodrigo Noya Read More

5/7/04
The Master and His Pupil

Crew: Cinematographer

2003
Una Noche Con Sabrina Love

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Cecilia Roth, Fabian Vena, Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: A teenager hits the road for a crash course in the ways of the world in this amiable comedy-drama. Daniel (Tomas Fonzi) is a 17-year-old orphan growing up in a sleepy village in rural Argentina. Daniel feels trapped in his town, has grown tired of living with his grandparents, and hates his job; Read More

2001
El Viento se llevo lo que

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Vera Fogwill, Ángela Molina, Fabian Vena, Jean Rochefort, Ulises Dumont

Synopsis: Argentine director Alejando Agresti directed this surreal, allegorical Argentine-French-Dutch- Spanish comedy-drama. Winner of the "Golden Shell Grand Prize" at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival, the absurdist tale is set during the '70s. Young Buenos Aires cabdriver Soledad (Vera Fogwill) Read More

1998
La Cruz

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this dark comedy from Argentine director Alejandro Agresti -- best known for his social and political dramas -- follows a depressive, boozy and self-absorbed middle-aged film critic down a self-destructive path. There is nothing very nice about Alfredo so it is not surprising that his wife and Read More

1997
Buenos Aires Vice Versa

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Editor, Producer, Production Designer, Screenwriter, Songwriter

Synopsis: The state of Argentina past and present becomes the basis for this drama's underlying message. Much of the tale is allegorical and so the message is implicit making it most meaningful for audiences with an understanding of Argentine history. As the film begins an intertitle appears reminding the Read More

1996
El Acto En Cuestion

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Carlos Roffe, Lorenzs Quinteros, Sergio Poves Campos

Synopsis: Surely you remember hearing about the illusionist who made the entire Eiffel Tower disappear in one of his shows? If you ever wondered about that, or about the magician who pulled off the stunt, perhaps you have what it takes to watch this surreal and nonlinear film, which explores the life Read More

1993
Modern Crimes

Crew: Director

Actors: Adrian Brine

Synopsis: One day, Tim (Roy Ward) stops to speak with one of those men with no apparent income and no apparent place of residence who can be seen on the streets of Amsterdam and who are ready to speak of profundities and mock-profundities at the drop of a hat. This particular man tells him that "people Read More

1992
De Nacht Van De Wilde Ezels

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Pim de la Parra, Liz Snoyink, Kenneth Herdigein, Hans Dagelet

Synopsis: The prolific Dutch director of experimental films, Pim de la Parra, here has crafted an improvisational satire on the process of making experimental films, and it is particularly aimed at the Dutch avant-garde. Filmed in black and white, the story puts a crew of unpaid actors and actresses Read More

1991
Alissa In Concert

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael Matthews, Johan Leysen

Synopsis: Alissa (Frances-Marie Uitti) is a concert cellist, and, like most cellists, routinely carries her instrument around with her wherever she goes. In her case, "wherever" includes the afterlife, because she has lost track of her boyfriend Justice (Michael Matthews) and is determined to find him. This Read More

1990
How to Survive a Broken Heart

Actors: Alejandro Agresti

Synopsis: To his credit, the highly prolific Dutch filmmaker Pim de la Parra doesn't just make his own style of films but helps other filmmakers create something. In this black-and-white film, he is listed as a co-producer, and a co-writer. The story concerns a bereft young man living in a bleak section of Read More

1990
Luba

Crew: Director

Actors: Viveca Lindfors

Synopsis: The somewhat kinky writer Roberto (Elio Marchi) is hiding out from the Gestapo, and decides that the ideal place to spend the war would be in a room at a fancy brothel which has its own cabaret. It is run by a down-to-earth madam played by Viveca Lindefors. He rents an expensive room there and Read More

1990
Boda Secreta

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tito Haas, Sergio Poves Campos

Synopsis: Fermin (Tito Haas) has been out of touch with his home for over twelve years due to political upheavals in Argentina. Previously, he was a political activist. He is now free to return to his old haunts in a town many miles from Buenos Aires, and takes up with his old lady-love (who never married Read More

1988
El Amor Es Una Mujer Gorda

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Elio Marchi, Sergio Poves Campos, Carlos Roffe, Mario Luciani

Synopsis: In this complex political drama, set in Argentina after the demise of its military dictatorship, a young journalist's preference for writing leftist articles endangers his job. His editor assigns him to follow the filming of an American movie. He does so, but not without making many inflammatory Read More

1987
Hombre Que Gano La Razon

Crew: Cinematographer, Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Elio Marchi, Marina Skell, Sergio Poves Campos

Synopsis: This was the first feature in 24-year-old Alejandro Agresti's career, and it is worthy of note if only because of the impossible conditions under which it was filmed. Agresti was followed around by Argentina's secret police while shooting this film. He then went to Holland where he found the money Read More

1986