| Overview: | "Familia Rodante" (Rolling Family), a moving road-movie about family relationships, is the latest film by the brilliant new Argentinian director Pablo Trapero, described recently in Le Monde as 'One of the revelations of the new century'. The film premiered at last year's Venice Film Festival and follows Trapero's acclaimed film MUNDO GRÚA and EL BONAERENSE. In FAMILIA RODANTE, the young director based the story on his own experiences and the anecdotes of family and close friends.
Thirty years ago, his father built the camper-van (casa rodante in Spanish) we see in the movie, and during their holidays Trapero's family spent years travelling to remote corners of Argentina in the van.
"Familia Rodante" begins on the day of the 84th birthday celebration of Grandma Emilia, when her disparate family gathers to pay homage to their matriarch. They are unaware of the bombshell she's about to drop: she's been invited to be the matron of honour at her niece's wedding in the remote village where she was brought up, over a thousand kilometres away from Buenos Aires, and expects them all to go with her. Unable to defend themselves against the heavy dose of emotional blackmail she lays on them, thirteen members of four generations of the same family cram into the back of an old camper van and set off.
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