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Berlin Winner Ariel Rotter’s Latest ‘A Blue Bird,’ Pushing Viewers ‘to Try to Decipher Battles Being Fought in the Protagonist’s Head’
The film explores love's labors gently lost.
Berlin-winning Argentine helmer Ariel Rotter(“Incident Light,” “The Others”) debuts his latest feature “A Blue Bird” (“Un Pájaro Azul”) to Spanish audiences in Málaga this week, the film screening in a particularly robust out-of-competition 19 title lineup that include Benito Zembrano’s “Jumping the Fence” and Morena Films-backed “Puntos Suspensivos,” from David Marqués. Produced by Argentina’s Tarea Fina, behind “Sublime” and Cannes Camera d’Or winner “Las Acacias,” alongside Uruguay’s Montelona Cine (“Nunchaku”), the film follows Javier (Alfonso Tort) and his partner Valeria (Julieta Zylberberg), as they navigate their exhausting six-year battle to conceive a child. Portraying the inner workings of the broader human condition through troubled and relatable leads, Rotter calculates Javier’s next move by utilizing a real-time rhythm, an audience allowed to sit with the discomfort as he grapples with the consequences of his lukewarm infidelity while renegotiating what it means to be a partner, a son, an adult.
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