Writer-director Daniel Burman (The Lost Embrace, The Mystery of Happiness) is continuing his combination of drama and comedy with The Tenth Man, a story about a son returning to see his father after years of estrangement. In the process, he reconnects with his Jewish roots and grapples with “notions of identity, home, and the father-son relationship.”
The Argentine drama, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and Kino Lorber picked it up for a release this July. The trailer demonstrates the blending of compositional styles between an almost cinéma vérité approach and more austere, static wide shots that suggests the film will mesh the subjective and objective. See the full trailer below for the film starring Alan Sabbagh and Julieta Zylberberg.
Award-winning director Daniel Burman returns with The Tenth Man, a well-observed comedy that wrestles with notions of identity, home and the intricacies of the father son relationship. After years away, Ariel returns to Buenos Aires seeking to reconnect with his father Usher, who has founded a charity foundation in Once, the city’s bustling Jewish district where Ariel spent his youth. In the process of trying to meet his father and getting entangled in his charitable commitments, Ariel also reconnects with his own Jewish roots.
Usher staves off a meeting with his son; roping him into a number of small assignments, during the course of which Ariel meets Eva, who volunteers for Usher’s charity. Eva’s radiant inner strength and independent spirit inspires Ariel to come to grips with the the traditions that once divided him and his father and rethink his own identity. Tenderly, and with a lightness of touch, he has Ariel let go of his old expectations and allow himself to be drawn into the center of a vibrant and fascinating community.
The Tenth Man will hit limited U.S. theaters July 29th.