The Critics' Week section of the Cannes Film Festival unveiled this morning the official lineup for its 52nd edition which includes the Argentinean comedy Los dueños / The Owners by Agustín Toscano and Ezequiel Radusky. The film, the only Latin American film at the Critics' Week Feature Competition, is a vaudeville-esque social comedy where workers on a farm party hard while their bosses are absent. Los dueñosis produced by Hernán Musaluppi's Rizoma Films and marks Toscano and Radusky's debut feature film.
Starring Rosario Bléfari (Silvia Prieto) and German de Silva, the film tells the story of Sergio, Ruben and Alicia, who are caretakers of a countryside estate in Tucumán, a northern province in Argentina. When the estate owners are absent, the sneaky workers secretly occupy the house and emulate the owners' lifestyle. They sleep in comfortable beds, watch movies on a big screen TV and eat food that they could never afford.
When the owners of the estate, Pía and her sister Lourdes, show up unexpectedly for the weekend with their husbands, Manuel and Gabriel, the workers are left out to their own humble abode and daily duties. But it's difficult to stay away from the comfort to which they have grown accustomed. The owners have secrets of their own, and soon everyone is wondering who will end up running the house.
The Short Film Competition of the Cannes' parallel section also includes only one Latin American contender, the Brazilian film Patio by Aly Muritiba. The 52nd edition of Cannes' Critics' Week will take place May 16-24 in the French Riviera.
