THE PARROT AND THE SWAN
(EL LORO Y EL CISNE)
dir. Alejo Moguillansky, 2013
100 mins. Argentina.
In Spanish with English subtitles.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7 – 5 PM followed by remote Q+A with filmmaker Alejo Moguillansky.
(This event is $10.)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13 – 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20 - 10 PM
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26 – 7:30 PM

Co-presented with Cinema Tropical.

Starting off as a docu-fiction about a film crew making a movie about Argentinian ballet before veering off into a bemusing riff on Swan Lake and eventually settling into a deadpan romantic comedy, THE PARROT AND THE SWAN is continually surprising and filled with a keen sense of fun. Dealing with a rough, hate-mail filled break-up meek sound-mixer, Parrot, finds himself falling in love with a pregnant experimental dancer, Luciana (Luciana Acuña, Moguillansky’s wife) while in the middle of filming a documentary. Boom still in hand, Parrot quits his job and pursues her from crowded, bohemian Buenos Aires flats to odd corners of provincial Argentina.

While an endearing character study at heart, the film seems happiest when headed off into endless digressions like lengthy ballet rehearsals, Freudian dream analysis, and amusing sound jokes centered around Parrot’s refusal to ever put down his boom.