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FAMILIA RODANTE (Rolling Family), a
moving road-movie about family relation-
ships, is the latest film by the brilliant new
Argentinian director Pablo Trapero, de-
scribed recently in Le Monde as 'One of
the revelations of the new century'. The
film premiered at last year’s Venice Film
Festival and follows Trapero’s acclaimed
film MUNDO GRÚA and EL BONAERENSE.
In FAMILIA RODANTE, the young director
based the story on his own experiences
and the anecdotes of family and close
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Thirty years ago, his father built the camper-van (casa rodante in Spanish) we see in the movie,
and during their holidays Trapero’s family spent years travelling to remote corners of Argentina
in the van.
FAMILIA RODANTE begins on the day of the 84th birthday celebration of Grandma Emilia, when
her disparate family gathers to pay homage to their matriarch. They are unaware of the bomb-
shell she’s about to drop: she’s been invited to be the matron of honour at her niece’s wedding
in the remote village where she was brought up, over a thousand kilometres away from Buenos
Aires, and expects them all to go with her. Unable to defend themselves against the heavy dose
of emotional blackmail she lays on them, thirteen members of four generations of the same
family cram into the back of an old camper van and set off.
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