The ene inan Argentine science fiction series adapted to a famous comic strip created by the screenwriter Hector Oesterheld arrives on Netflix on April 30. With her, the city of Buenos Aires enters resistance against an extraterrestrial attack. She signs the return to the screen of the Argentinian cinema star Ricardo Darin. This is a very tale “Argentine“, but also universal and current carrying the message that”nobody runs away alone“Explains the actor in an interview with AFP.
The ene in Traces the struggle of Juan Salvo (alias Ricardo Darin) and a group of ordinary people improvising hero to survive and organize, with the means at hand, resistance to an invasion. A summer night in Buenos Aires, mysterious snowfall eliminates most of the population, leaving thousands of homeless people. Juan Salvo and his friends discover that this climatic event is only the first attack on a foreign army well decided to invade the earth. After the snow will come Monsters with the appearance of giant beetles and humanoids.
The distribution gives pride of place to Argentinian actresses and actors, the most famous of which is undoubtedly Ricardo Darin, hero of a magnificent police officer, In his eyes, by Juan José Campanella, Oscar for the best film in a foreign language in 2010. He also played in The new savages, The nine queens or the multiplied Argentina, 1985.
“These are people who absolutely do not understand what is happening, faced with something completely unexpected, very hostile“, summarized the actor for AFP, a few hours before the launch of the series.”And if we tell it seriously, in any corner of the world, people will join because something similar has happened to them“.
The ene in is the adaptation of a mythical science fiction comic strip in Argentina, born in 1957, resumed and continued in the 1970s, 80s and 2000, by successive designers. The original scriptwriter, Hector Oesterheld, left-wing activist, is one of the thousands of disappeared under the Argentine military dictatorship (1976-83), a posteriori that is both a visionary and tragic character to this fundamentally political saga.
The comic strip was a pioneer in its time, in the 1950s, in that it anchored for the first time a story of science fiction outside the usual places in this type of literature (North America, Europe, Espace). She had an Argentinian flavor, well “Porteña” [de Buenos Aires]browsing emblematic places of the capital, in particular the famous stadium The monumental.
-Argentinian, but speaking to everyone … with his comic book, oesterheld “The sea launched a message that has become a motto, a leitmotif, which is that no one saves alone. And it has to do with the history of civilization“, Medite Ricardo Darin.
“Because it’s like that“, he insists.”Because the peoples who were able to survive are those who gathered, defended side by side, were interested not only in what happened to them individually, in their group, their family, but beyond. Those who have opened their arms to others. And I think it will be eternal“, Adds Darin, referring to the neologism of the title”Eternaute“: Navigator of eternity.
The actor evokes “Huge physical exhaustion“Filming – 148 days, including 113 for him – harnessed with thick clothes, backpack, weapon, mask, boots, in an action film where”You have to jump, fall, knock, fight, in artificial snow, yes, but snow anyway. (…) So many things that, at 25 or 30 years old, pass without problem, but for me who is 114 years old [il a en réalité 68 ans], It’s very painful“, he laughs
He admits having doubted at the very beginning against the project, then, seeing “respect“For the work and”serious“of realization,”enthusiasm has taken precedence over caution“. “Nothing like it has never been here“, He said now with pride. While admitting, in a context of Argentinian cinema largely defined under the austerity wanted by the government of the ultra-liberal president Javier Milei, that he is”Difficult to swallow that we are now dependent only on the possible interest of a platform for a project, to be able to achieve things that we can show in the world“.
The actor deplores the “big paradox“To see this Argentinian cinema”So much appreciated for a long time out of our lands, and have people who doubt the importance of supporting it, stimulating it, defending it“.
However, he says to himself “confident, for many reasons, that we will overcome this situation. Because we [Argentins] are very used to crises, for better or for worse, we have a dynamic to cope with great strength of character“. ?
