Adrián Caetano

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Adrián Caetano

Born December 20, 1969 · Montevideo, Uruguay (age 56)

Israel Adrián Caetano (born 1969 in Montevideo, Uruguay), known as Adrián Caetano, is an Uruguayan film director, producer and screenwriter. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Known For

TogoTogo · 2022
Togo
6.32022
MovieCrimeDrama
Togo just wants to watch his neighbors' homes, wash their cars and clean up their sidewalks. But the drug traffickers want more from him.
BoliviaBolivia · 2002
Bolivia
7.32002
MovieDrama
Freddy emigrates to Buenos Aires in search of a more prosperous life. In his native country, Bolivia, he left his family. But the capital of Argentina is not the paradise he dreamed of, and much less for illegal immigrants like himself. But even with that, he gets a job as a griller in a restaurant.
18-j18-j · 2004
18-j
7.02004
Movie
A collection of 10 short films made by known Argentine directors on the AMIA bombing of July 18, 1994.
Mujeres elefanteMujeres elefante · 2007
Mujeres elefante
10.02007
MovieDrama
Tells the story of a group of female workers who are locked in a factory because of an invasion of wild elephants.
FranceFrance · 2010
France
5.22010
MovieFamilyDrama
Mariana doesn’t like her name and starts calling herself Gloria. Her parents split up before she was one year old and today, like many separated couples, they are brought back together under the same roof only because they don’t have a decent job. Cristina, her mother, rents a part of the house to her ex-husband for a bit of extra money. “Francia” talks about those people who will never travel far from their home, where they take refuge, for good or bad, from all disgusting things in the outside world. Meanwhile, Mariana puts on her headphones when she hears her parents fighting. Those fights which now serve as a relief to the helpless.
ReconocimientoReconocimiento · 2016
Reconocimiento
2016
MovieDrama
The Lost BrotherThe Lost Brother · 2017
The Lost Brother
7.02017
MovieThrillerDrama
Cetarti is drowning in nothingness. With no job or purpose, he spends his days inside watching documentaries on television, until one day he is informed that his mother and brother were gunned down. He travels from Buenos Aires to Lapachito, a decrepit town in the province of Chaco in northern Argentina to deal with their bodies and to get the life insurance money. There he meets Duarte, a sort of boss in the town and a friend of his mother's murderer who also kidnaps people for money. Cetarti's path will lead him to committing illegal acts to get his hands on the insurance money and to his involvement in Duarte's dark dealings, leading to an absurd and unexpected outcome.
Pizza, Beer, and CigarettesPizza, Beer, and Cigarettes · 1998
Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes
6.91998
MovieDramaCrime
A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they're getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies, but they are amateurs and things don't go too well. One of the youths, Cordoba, whose girlfriend Sandra is pregnant, just wants to get enough cash so they can leave Argentina and get to Uruguay to start a new life. He and his friends plan one last robbery, but things don't go as planned.

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Teoría sobre las coloniasTeoría sobre las colonias · 2014
Teoría sobre las colonias
6.02014
MovieDrama
A story about metaphor, exploring metaphor rather than a naturalistic or contemporary narrative, avoiding the discursive. It's not difficult to find the parallel between what happens and what actually happened: a family (us as a society) protected by a violent drunk (the government at the time), his wife and son, naked victims of their father's violence and impotence. The well-meaning bourgeois family (the cultural empire of good manners) seems to be restoring order when, in the face of such a situation, what they're actually doing is appropriating what they need under the guise of imperialist civilization. Reading it merely as a vampire story reaffirms this metaphor: out of our ignorance, we despise what conquers us, only for it to conquer us again without hesitation, with morality and good manners on its side.

Director