La Nostalgia del Centauro (2017)

In some remote place in the mountains of Tucumán, live Alba and Juan, an elderly couple with the values and customs of a gaucho tradition that transcends them. At this stage in life, they have told each other everything, and the echo of their voices reverberates only to give orders to their goats or to recite an endless number of old couplets from the rural tradition. The Centaur's Nostalgia spies on the days and nights of that taciturn life, examining some peculiarities (such as the relationship between the gaucho and the horses), while capturing the essence of that calm in unique and spectacular pastoral frames that never turn picturesque. The film conveys a handful of ghostly images that contain, in their singularity, all the power of film. Nicolás Torchinsky's camera explores in hidden places and details, as if it were looking for the secret behind a certain magic that, even though rustic, reveals its strange beauty little by little, like those trees that become visible with the dissipation of the morning fog.