Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's Hand in the Trap

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Born to a film-making family, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson was the first Argentine film director to be critically acclaimed outside the country. Torre Nilsson worked alongside his wife Beatriz Guido, a published author, on many of the scripts which he turned into successful films. One of them, Martín Fierro (1968), is about the main character of Argentina's national poem. In today's programme Rana Mitter and his guests discuss another - Hand in the Trap - a psychological coming of age story which won the FIPRESCI prize at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Elsa Daniel discovers the reasons for her aunt shutting herself away from the world and arranges a confrontation with the man who jilted her. Hand in the Trap is part of a gothic trilogy also featuring the films, The Fall and The House of the Angel. Professor Maria Delgado is Director of Research at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama María Blanco is Associate Professor in Spanish American Literature at the University of Oxford Xavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University Jordana Blejmar is a lecturer in Visual Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Liverpool Producer: Ruth Watts You can now find a playlist on the Free Thinking website Film on Radio 3: music, history, classics of world cinema: from Matthew Sweet on sound tracks to star performers through films which have created an impact to old favourites including programmes on Marlene Dietrich, Asta Neilsen, Jacques Tati, Cary Grant, Bette Davis, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Satyajit Ray, The Tin Drum, Touki Bouki, Kurosawa, Dziga Vertov, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Penny Woolcock, Mike Leigh, Spike Lee. Plus Radio 3's regular exploration of The Sound of Cinema and classic soundtracks You might be interested in other films by Torre Nilsson including: El crimen de Oribe , Dias de odio, Martin Fierro and Heartbreak Tango. Other writers and directors mentioned in the discussion include: Julio Cortázar (1914-1984) author of the short story which inspired Antonioni’s 1966 film Blowup; the British directors Karel Reisz and Lindsay Anderson; Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993) a friend of Surrealist painters Léger and de Chirico she co-authored the Antología de la literatura fantástica in 1940 along with Borges and Bioy Casares; Fernando “Pino” Solanas (1936 –2020) Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) and his 1961 film Viridiana; and Lucrecia Martel director of La Ciénaga (The Swamp), Pablo Trapero and Martín Rejtman – cinema directors of the New Argentine cinema.