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Miami Beach Cinematheque

1130 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139

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Region: South Beach

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• Asuncion
• Cannes
• Pablo Giorgelli
• Buenos Aires
• Hebe Duarte

Winner of the Best First Feature at Cannes last year and a highlight of New Directors/New Films this past spring, Pablo Giorgelli’s minimalist, gentle road movie Las Acacias traverses 900 miles, from Asunción, Paraguay — where terse, middle-aged truck driver Rubén (Germán de Silva) picks up Jacinta (Hebe Duarte) and her 5-month-old girl, Anahí — to Buenos Aires, where the unmarried mother hopes to start anew. Although confined mainly to the cab of Rubén’s vehicle, Las Acacias is generous and expansive, subtly registering how these three strangers eventually become at ease with and grow attached to one another. Even with its initial long stretches of silence, the film never feels clinical or cold, but rather compassionate and curious. “I’m in no hurry,” Jacinta assures Rubén at one point; though never languorous, neither is this lovely film. Watching this taciturn man grow close to mother and child — close enough that he experiences twinges of jealousy and abandonment toward the end of Las Acacias — is one of the most satisfying spectacles in a movie this year, a time-lapse of emotions rendered perfectly.
Tue., Nov. 13, 7 p.m., 2012