He discusses his love of literature and recounts his first experiences of the film industry, the strong cinema-going culture present in Argentina, working as a hotel concierge during the Mar del Plata festival, his early introduction to the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman and Jean- Luc Goddard, and working as an extra in A Man for All Seasons (1966).īabenco chronicles his move to Europe at the age of 17, a decision he says was inspired by watching a production of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. He shares his memory of fleeing with his family to São Paolo, where they ended up living for a number of years before returning to Argentina in 1956. He describes his upbringing as being governed by fear and hostility and talks about the importance of Jewish cultural identity. ![]() Hector Babenco begins by talking about his early childhood in Quilmes, a suburb of Buenos Aires that was predominantly an ex-Nazi neighborhood. ![]() It is a co-production with the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative and is part of the project From Latin America to Hollywood: Latino Film Culture in Los Angeles 1967-2017. Hector Babenco is interviewed by Mateus Araujo at Babenco’s home in São Paolo, Brazil, on March 25, 2016.
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