On Fridays and Saturdays at 7 pm, until 21 December and as the closing of the 2024 film programme, Casa de América will be exhibiting Pantaleón y las visitadoras (Peru, 1999), directed by Peruvian filmmaker Francisco Lombardi, and played by Salvador del Solar, Angie Cepeda, Mónica Sánchez and Pilar Bardem. A great opportunity for viewers to revisit or discover it.
The film, adaptation of the homonymous novel by Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, won the awards for best film, best director, best actor and the award of the International Federation of Cinematographic Press – FIPRESCI, at the Gramado Film Festival, Brazil, in addition to the award for best film at the Fourth Latin American Cinema Meeting, in Lima.
Francisco Lombardi is considered one of the most important filmmakers of Peruvian cinema, and among the most notable of Ibero-American cinema with a work of international impact. He has been a three-time winner at the San Sebastian Festival for: The City and the Dogs (Silver Shell), The Wolf’s Mouth (Golden Shell) and Under the Skin (Silver Shell). He is the winner of the Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film for Caídos del cielo. His last film, to date, is Amelia’s Decision (2022).
Much to his regret, Pantaleón Pantoja, a captain in the Peruvian army, receives orders from his superiors to carry out the mission of setting up a brothel in the middle of the Amazon jungle, So that they could satisfy the sexual needs of the troops stationed in such a remote area and keep the soldiers happy. Pantoja will put all his effort and discipline into the task.
