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I haven't slept in a long time", a romantic comedy that is defined by movement

The debut feature by Colombian director Agustín Godoy, born and trained in Buenos Aires, premieres this Thursday at the Buenos Aires Cine Gaumont

  • 26/09/2023 • 22:20

A backpack, with contents as valuable as it is mysterious, passes from hand to hand and in a dizzying manner between runners, motorcyclists and car drivers, and taxi passengers, until it is involuntarily received by a gray man, who enters a dynamic he does not know. , an adventure where you will also find love, is the intricate and at the same time simple proposal of "I haven't slept in a long time", by Agustín Godoy, which premieres this Thursday at the Buenos Aires Cine Gaumont. The debut feature of the Colombian director born and trained in Buenos Aires is a film that is defined by kinetic energy, while frenetic movement is what determines the progress of the story, with a 'Macguffin' - a term coined by Alfred Hitchcock about an object that causes the story but does not define it - in the center. It is a story with several similarities with the French 'nouvelle vague' films of the sixties and, for example in Argentina, the film "Castro" by Alejo Moguillansky, to show a mysterious organization, foreign mafias, characters who speak in rhyme and, above all, a love story in that apparent nonsense between Mapache (Agustín Gagliardi), an office worker with insomnia, and a gypsy tarot reader (Agustina Rudi). "I wanted to concentrate on the action, the rhythm and the language," Godoy tells Télam. "This is how the idea of a black backpack appeared that would allow us to tour the city and think about different ways of filming chases," completes the director.