The poet as screenwriter: landscape and protagonism in Papu Curotto’s Esteros
Gerardo ‘Papu’ Curotto’s debut feature Esteros (Estuaries, Argentina, 2016) tells a story of young love and second chances in Argentina’s northern Corrientes province. With its lush settings, endearing performances and positive denouement, it echoes recent LGBTQ+ themed Argentine successes on the in...
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| description | Gerardo ‘Papu’ Curotto’s debut feature Esteros (Estuaries, Argentina, 2016) tells a story of young love and second chances in Argentina’s northern Corrientes province. With its lush settings, endearing performances and positive denouement, it echoes recent LGBTQ+ themed Argentine successes on the international festival circuit. But Esteros can also be viewed from another angle, that of adaptation studies. A focus on the screenwriter Andi Nachon’s contribution reveals the subtle politics of a film that touches on land ownership, farming methods and environmentalism. By highlighting the screenwriter’s role, alongside that of the director, a number of apparently otiose leitmotifs and passing comments come to make sense as part of a broader comment on environmental politics in Argentina. Thus a study of Esteros that assesses the links between the film and Nachon’s poetry opens up the movie as a work of political critique and enriches our understanding of the screenwriter’s role in adaptations. |
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