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Man Aside
The Man Aside is Ricardo Liaño, a Spanish inmigrant settled
in Chile who was a boxing promoter, a show business producer and
creator of a number of muddy businesses. Old sponger and talker and
now an octogenarian and a poor man, Liaño wanders around with
the obssesion of himself still being a winner and that for the third
time in his life he will be a millionaire “in dollars”.
His subjugating personality leads him to propose the filmmakers
to make a movie about his life, instead of a documentary. The hired
scriptwriter, Samir Nazal, must confront Liaño who, at all
costs, wishes to convince those around him that his unrealistic
projects will give him again fame, wealth and the happiness to
meet again with his family.
Through a singular mix of tragedy and comedy and a record that
goes deep into the character’s intimacy, this documentary
shows in a very vivid way the drama of a human being faced to the
inevitability of his own decay.
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