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TIFF Trailers: El Pasado (The Past)

Among the titles that IONCINEMA.com will be covering at TIFF and therefore look forward to getting familiarized a little beforehand is Hector Babenco’s The Past (O Pasado). A couple of years after Carandiru, I’m glad to see the Brazilian filmmaker (born in Argentina) back in form after a serious cancer-related illness that took him off the map for a couple of years.

Eric Lavallée

Published on August 30, 2007

Among the titles that IONCINEMA.com will be covering at TIFF and therefore look forward to getting familiarized a little beforehand is Hector Babenco's The Past (O Pasado). A couple of years after Carandiru, I'm glad to see the Brazilian filmmaker (born in Argentina) back in form after a serious cancer-related illness that took him off the map for a couple of years.

Based on a novel by the Argentine writer Alan Pauls, The Past is about a couple who decide to separate after 12 years; while the man (played by Gael García Bernal) tries to leave his past behind, his former partner is unable to let go. Click on the poster image below to access the trailer.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).