Movies by Ulises Dumont
Tangos Are for Two
A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero, a seamstress who lives for the music of Gardel, dumps her boyfriend Gustavo for Renzo, a singer who looks like Gardel. She insists that his trio performs Gardel's tangos, which leads to Renzo recording a Ford commercial when Gardel himself is overbooked. The trio, with Joanna in tow, goes on an ill-fated tour of points north. The couple breaks up: she go...
To Die in San Hilario
The inhabitants of San Hilario make their living from funerals. They are awaiting their first customer in a long time.
Bar de Mala Muerte
Funny Dirty Little War
A small revolution breaks out in a small Argentine town, as one group of Peronists calls they newly elected peronist a communist. The newly elected official enlists the aid of allies ranging from the town drunk to young peronists to help hold his post. What follows is a slapstick war with a serious message.
The Eyes of the Scissors
Close-up to a man who censored films during the military dictatorship in Argentina, slightly inspired by the infamous Miguel Paulino Tato.
Last Days of the Victim
Mendizábal, a hit man, its ordered by his anonymous clients to murder a man. But in the precise and obsessive persecution, he will discover that he is only part of a game that doesn't belong to him, a web at the service of greater interests.
El hombre que ganó la razón
While searching for the theme for his new novel, a writer interacts with various characters with whom he interacts.
Horizontal/Vertical
En una ciudad desconocida, en un edificio a través de las ventanas se puede ver el momento exacto en el que las cosas cambian. El antes comienza a ser el después y viceversa. Y nada vuelve a ser como antes. En este universo idéntico y diferente a la vez, se ve como los personajes cambian para siempre. In an unknown city, in a building through the windows you can see the exact moment when things change. The before begins to be the after and vice versa. And nothing goes back to the way it was before. In this identical and different universe at...
Policía corrupto
La silla
A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop.
I remember her now
Rafael (Dumont) is a desolate retiree who doesn't want to live anymore and who travels to Mendoza with the idea of committing suicide. He stays at a small-time hotel called Rex, and there he meets Gladis (Spelzini), a lonely woman who works as a maid and takes care of her blind brother. Both live a sad life, with many marks from their past, but little by little a relationship between them is emerging.
Crecer de golpe
It tells the complex relationship of Milo, a teenager, and his old protector. Adaptation of "Around the cage", work of the writer Haroldo Conti, disappeared in 1976 by Argentine dictatorship.
Historias de amor, de locura y de muerte