Ángel Faretta | |
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Born |
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
21 April 1953
Occupation | playwright, short story writer, poet, film critic |
Nationality | Argentinian, Italian |
Period | 1980–2009 |
Genre | Fiction, essay |
Ángel Faretta (born 21 April 1953) is an Argentine author of his own theory of cinema, film critic, writer, poet and teacher. Since 1980, he has been published in various media, testing, analysis articles and reviews on art, literature and cinema. For many followers of his theory he is "the person who most reflected on the cinema in Argentina, and its theoretical more lucid, original and influential, true to his thinking and away from any fashion." About Faretta, the film critic Fernando Regueira wrote:
"Faretta is the only thinker with a Theory of Cinema (Aesthetics and general) in our own homeland, and we fear much in our Spanish language throughout."
Regueira Fernando
Angel Faretta was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He attended primary and secondary education in the priest-run Catholic school Calasanz Piarists Caballito. According to Faretta, "in those years, the secondary, at least there is now a full education. Latin, theology, philosophy, literature, and especially the interaction was with most of the teachers."
Acknowledges in its train a series of anonymous individuals and teachers, as Horacio Alvarez Boero, scholar in American cinema classic. "When we chatted with Samuel Fuller, as he stares and says:" Horace, how many years you lived in Hollywood without you knowing. "
Another focus of their training would be self-learning, where Faretta includes: "... the bookshops. And the back of bookshops. And the bars, cherries, the whiskerías like the one Tania had in front of the Teatro Cervantes ... How many years now I repeat: "Those that have not lived in Argentina, in Buenos Aires in those years will never know the sweetness of life."
Faretta began to publish several magazines. He collaborated in publications such as the legendary comic magazine and the magazine Minotauro and Fierro.