Man Facing Southeast

Man Facing Southeast Spanish Hombre mirando al sudeste is a 1986 Argentine dramascience fiction film written and directed by Eliseo Subiela and starring Lorenzo Quinteros and Hugo Soto. The film was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 60th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

The staff and patients go about their daily business at Buenos Aires Jos Borda Psychiatric Hospital on a summer day in 1985. A staff psychiatrist, Dr. Julio Denis Lorenzo Quinteros is surprised to hear that his ward for nonviolent delusional cases has one patient too many. Denis finds him in the chapel playing the organ like a virtuoso. Summoning him Hugo Soto to his office, Denis finds the mans speech is measured and articulate as he explains his presence there as a result of an image being projected from light years away. He introduces himself as Rants an exotic sounding name in Argentina. Dr. Denis is convinced that Rants is a fugitive hoping to hide from the law in the hospital. He lets the patient stay however, after seeing how his caring touch helps the other patients. The doctor is amused by his extraterrestrial claims and he suspects that the man is a genius using his talents as a charade.Julio Denis is a highly professional, lonely man, whose recent divorce left him jaded towards life and work. Since his wife remarried, he settles for weekly outings with his two children and grainy home movies of happier times, which he views every night. Rants, noticing the wounded Dr. Denis, is as interested in his troubles as the doctor is in Rants, the first patient in a long time that has interested him at all. Believing his claim to be a projected hologram an allusion to Adolfo Bioy Casares novel, Morels Invention, Dr. Denis concludes that this impressive genius is very wellread. The doctor soon uses his prerogatives to include Rants in several outings, including a visit to a touring Moscow State Circus performance. ........

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