It is useless to attempt a traditional synopsis of Fin de Partie by Samuel Beckett...
(2025, Argentina, 106')
Starting from Fin de Partie, whose initials he reverses, Moguillansky sets in motion a play of mirrors and echoes, creating a kaleidoscopic variation on Beckett’s famous play. A child and a blind man gaze at a boundless lake. Two actors meet as lovers to rehearse an old piece in a southern town. Two elderly people live inside a garbage bin in front of Parliament. A son accompanies the endless farewell of his pianist mother, condemned to repeat the Moonlight Sonata. Two filmmakers shoot trains and moons, chasing an art – cinema – whose very existence is now in doubt.
A director, screenwriter, editor, and producer (Buenos Aires, 1978), and one of the most innovative voices in Argentine cinema. His films have screened at Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, London, and numerous other international festivals. He has won the Best Argentine Film award three times at BAFICI. As an editor, he has collaborated with filmmakers such as Mariano Llinás, Santiago Mitre, Matías Piñeiro, and Laura Citarella (in Venice in 2022 with Trenque Lauquen). He is co-founder of El Pampero Cine, the collective that has reshaped Argentine independent cinema. His most recent editing work, The Miu Miu Affair, was selected at Venice in 2024.
