With the purpose of highlighting the life and work of emblematic figures of Uruguayan culture, the Casa de América and the Embassy of Uruguay present three documentaries dedicated to Mario Benedetti, Joaquín Torres García and Ida Vitale.
The first of these, Benedetti, sixty years with Luz, will be presented on Tuesday 24 September at 18.30 in the Sala Iberia by Hortensia Campanella, director of the Fundación Benedetti, which will bring closer to the path that the poet and Luz López have travelled together, His companion for sixty years.
The film collects previously unpublished documents and testimonies of personalities who met the couple, including former Uruguayan president José Mujica, singer-songwriters Joan Manuel Serrat and Pablo Milanés, actor Héctor Alterio, as well as relatives and other people with whom Benedetti worked.
This documentary is directed and written by Andrés Varela (Uruguay, 1975), a director, screenwriter and producer who has participated in numerous theater projects as a producer, actor and director, among others with the national comedy. Graduated from the Multidisciplinary School of Dramatic Art Margarita Xirgu. Continued his training in Paris (France), obtaining a bachelor’s degree in performing arts from the University of Paris X Nanterre and then a master’s degree from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University. He was also trained at the International School of Theatre Jaques Lecoq. He is a national literature prize of the M.E.C. In 2006 he co-founded the production company Coral Cine, with which he has made numerous films and series. Among them Benedetti, sixty years with Luz, his last work as director.
They will welcome the institutional event León de la Torre Krais, general director of Casa de América, and Ana Teresa Ayala, ambassador of Uruguay.
Mario Benedetti and Luz López met in their teens, he became a writer and she was a public employee. Together they shared life, exile, failures, success, friends and love. Sixty years and eighty books later Luz suffers from Alzheimer’s, she forgets all her past and finally Mario, just before he died… Today we reconstruct this memory with our eyes on the author and the love that united them. Free entry until the capacity of 60 places. Tickets will be distributed one hour before the start of the screening.
