The controversial French feminist filmmaker Nelly Kaplan is known for her fantastic films that utilize her unique combination of gentleness, grotesquerie, vulgarity, boldness, and contradiction. Kaplan came to filmmaking by way of her work as an archivist for the Argentine cinematheque. After traveling to Paris to represent her native Argentina at an International Congress of film archivists, she decided to remain to work as a correspondent for Argentinean film journals. In 1954 she met the legendary French director Abel Gance and became his assistant. He taught her film production?though t
By the end of the 1930s Argentinean cinema had flourished, leading the film industry in Latin America and regaining its foothold in the international Spanish-language film market. The tango, that quintessential Argentinean musical form, had propelled this success. Tango?s tragic legendary hero, Carlos Gardel, gave the tango its lasting sophistication and brought it to the big screen as its romantic hero.
