El Búfalo de la Noche (film)

Infobox Film
name = El Búfalo de la Noche


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director = Jorge Hernandez Aldana
producer = La Neta Films/Naco Films
writer = Guillermo Arriaga, Jorge Hernandez Aldana
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starring = Walther Cantú
Francisco Cardoso
Liz Gallardo
Gabriel González
Armando Hernández
Verónica Langer
Diego Luna
music = Omar Rodriguez Lopez
cinematography = Gustav Danielsson
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released = 17 August 2007 (México)
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country = Mexico
language = Spanish
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website = http://www.bufalodelanoche-pelicula.com/
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imdb_id = 0483577

"El Búfalo de la Noche" (English: "The Night Buffalo") is a 2007 film directed by Jorge Hernandez Aldana and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It is based on the novel by Guillermo Arriaga and stars Diego Luna. It was released in Mexico on August 17, 2007. American release date is unknown.

The story revolves around a young schizophrenic man, Gregorio (Gabriel González) that commits suicide, affecting the lives of his girlfriend (Liz Gallardo) and best friend (Diego Luna), who were involved on a secret relationship, betraying Rodrigo's trust and inevitably involving themselves on a guilt trip when Gregorio kills himself.

It is planned to be shown around the world with distribution confirmed at Iran, Turkey, Luxembourg, Romania, Serbia, Israel, Poland, Greece, Macedonia, Belgium and Holland.

The Movie

It follows the plotline of the book, structuring it in a much more cinematic manner. The setting is contemporary México, and the characters are from the college students community, struggling to get ahead in a world that is getting more alienated by the time, where physical contact fills the gaps in interpersonal communication.

The writer, explained it on an interview: "It's a novel I wrote after teaching at the university for some time. After some years I realized young people are getting more emotionally damaged, their capacity as human beings of being introspective and relating to each other is everytime more deteriorated, this is precisely what the movie tries to reflect... Since the novel came out its natural audience has been people under thirty, who understand it better because they are going through the same confusion stages as the characters." [cite web |url=http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/08/11/index.php?section=espectaculos&article=a08n1esp |title=Interview for La Jornada Newspaper|accessdate=2008-03-22]

The apparent incongruency on the characters actions, thoughts and personalities reflects a great deal of Latin American idiosyncrasies; The director said: "The importance of making this film is the contradictions of the characters, that's what gets them close to real people. The stories of young people we get to see on the big screen at Latin America usually come from other countries, and therefore reflect a reality we do not have here; we dedicate this film to address these problems on latin American youth with our own language... Before we started shooting I did not know México has a high rate of suicide and youth schizophrenia, one of the highest on the world. This told me we made the right choice in talking about these issues: besides entertaining, we want to make a portrait of Mexico, and a great deal of Latin America" [cite web |url=http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/08/11/index.php?section=espectaculos&article=a08n1esp |title=Interview for La Jornada Newspaper|accessdate=2008-03-22]

Production

The rights to the novel were previously sold to another production company, but were revoked when the writer, Guillermo Arriaga saw the project turn into something he did not agree with. Having gone through a similar ordeal years before with the 1999 movie "Un Dulce Olor a Muerte" (a sweet scent of death) also based on one of is novels and directed by Gabriel Retes. He had promised himself he would not let another movie turn the message of his work into something unrelated. [cite web |url=http://www.bufalodelanoche-pelicula.com/ |title=Production section of the website, Notas de produccion|accessdate=2008-03-22]

Upon this decision he took the project himself and set out to produce along a local businessman, he admittedly looked for a novice director to get a fresh outlook and finally settled for Jorge Henandez, whom he had awarded as the jury of a Venezuelan short film contest. [cite web |url=http://www.bufalodelanoche-pelicula.com/ |title=Production section of the website, Notas de produccion|accessdate=2008-03-22]

The Soundtrack of the Film

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta wrote the score which was performed mostly by Rodriguez-Lopez himself with some songs performed by the entire Mars Volta band.It wasn't released on any form, There were excerpts of three songs from Amputechture, "Asilos Magdalena", "Viscera Eyes" and " Tetragrammaton".

ee also

*El Búfalo de la Noche (book)
*The Mars Volta

References

External links

* [http://www.bufalodelanoche-pelicula.com/ Official Site]
*imdb title|0483577