“Arturo a los 30”, interview with director Martín Shanly

With his first feature, “About Twelve”, director Martín Shanly studied a character who was not behaving up to the expectations people have of a certain age. With his second feature, Arturo a los 30 – About Thirty, where he also plays the lead, Arturo Shanly is again analizying some people’s inability to keep up with society expectations on what and how one should be at a certain age.

Arturo a los 30, in competition at the 41st Torino Film Festival, started its shooting in 2017 but Martín Shanly finished the film only in 2022, with the pandemic crossing the project. The Covid 19’s lockdown sort of affected the film’s process and Shanly  decided it was only fair and natural to include this moment in the representation of Arturo’s path in the film.

Comedy and its tropes are the best way for Shanly to also depicts the sometimes darker aspects of Arturo’s personality and journey, such as grief and depression.

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