“La guerra gaucha” and the “very national” film. Some approaches to its film critics

Abstract

This work occupies of a legendary film in the annals of the creole cinematography: La guerra gaucha, directed by Lucas Demare to the stamp Associated, and performed for the first time in Buenos Aires in November of 1942. In relation with it, we study, on one hand, the warm reception taxed for the critics of premiere; on the other hand, to examine in perspective the pronouncements of film historians, who, have been already benefited for the temporary distance of their exams, don´t let up of reaffirm in substance the pronouncements of previous analysts. The early calibrations of this premiere underline, as the latest, the consideration as far as three substantial scenes- the historic, the stylistic and the mechanical-, that condense the reasons which single out the shipment in front of other proposal of that time: The gaucha war overcomes any argentinian film realized up to today. The film was applauded in the context of its premiere and eulogized by the analysts after seventy year, this “very national” film will let us to contrast the (early and quiet), and to study the predicament that the called “impressionist critic” of news executed in the historians.