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Luis Puenzo
Highest Rated: 100% The Official Story (1985)
Lowest Rated: 45% Clandestine Childhood (2011)
Birthday: Feb 19, 1946
Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Leading figure of the Argentine film industry who began directing commercials at the age of 19 and directed, produced and co-wrote his first feature, "Lights of My Shoes," in 1973. Puenzo earned international recognition for "The Official Story" (1984), a subtle and moving account of a middle-class woman who gradually becomes aware of her own complicity in a corrupt political regime. The film earned Norma Aleandro a Best Actress Award at Cannes in 1985 and itself took home the Oscar for Best Foreign Film the following year.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45% | 69% | Clandestine Childhood | Producer | $9.0K | 2011 |
| 83% | 47% | The Fish Child | Producer | - | 2009 |
| 83% | 80% | XXY | Producer | $46.0K | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | The Whore and the Whale |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | The Plague | Director | - | 1992 |
| 46% | 45% | Old Gringo |
Director, Screenwriter |
$2.3M | 1989 |
| 100% | 89% | The Official Story | Director | - | 1985 |