La Libertad (2001) - Lisandro Alonso

This is the first installment of Lisandro Alonso's trilogy: La Libertad, Los Muertos and Fantasma -- which literally translate to The Freedom, The Dead and Phantom. All three films are quite intriguing and very much worth watching. (Los Muertos is my personal favorite because it seems to flow most naturally, almost magically, like the river where it takes place; but I've come across an interview in which Alonso speaks of La Libertad as a more challenging and, in his view, more successful project.) Throughout the trilogy, the Argentinean director/screenwriter manages to inspire in the audience a true sense of awe and mystery while working with very few, beautifully simple ideas; it is precisely the economic and lean nature of the "storytelling" (if one may call it this) that's most captivating. In La Libertad, the camera appears to document a day in the life of a woodsman who survives in a state of near-complete isolation. (Curiously enough, the filmmaker has described the story as being not so much about a lumberjack, but about a person watching that lumberjack from a cinema - a concept which is later touched upon in Fantasma, the third part of the trilogy.) General Complete name : La Libertad.avi Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave Format/Family : RIFF File size : 693 MiB PlayTime : 1h 9mn Bit rate : 1381 Kbps StreamSize : 9.20 MiB Writing application : MEncoder dev-CVS-060307-04:23-4.0.1 Writing library : MPlayer Video #0 Codec : DivX 4 Codec/Family : MPEG-4 Codec/Info : Project Mayo DivX 4 Codec profile : Simple Profile/Level 1 Codec settings/PacketBitStream : No Codec settings/BVOP : No Codec settings/QPel : No Codec settings/GMC : 0 Codec settings/Matrix : Default PlayTime : 1h 9mn Bit rate : 1247 Kbps Width : 560 pixels Height : 320 pixels Display Aspect ratio : 16/9 Frame rate : 29.970 fps Resolution : 8 bits Chroma : 4:2:0 Interlacement : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.231 StreamSize : 621 MiB Audio #1 Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3 Codec profile : Joint stereo PlayTime : 1h 9mn Bit rate : 125 Kbps Bit rate mode : CBR Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48 KHz Resolution : 16 bits StreamSize : 62.4 MiB Writing library : Xing (new) IMDB: tt0291310 Spanish audio, English and Portuguese subtitles

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tjetje (2009-04-04)

Thank you so incredibly much for this! I love Los Muertos and Liverpool, and almost gave up hope of ever finding this one... Any chance you will upload more of Alonso's films? Thank you again for wonderful work!