the crack that no one imagined

The Argentine National Team, or better, the success of the Scaloneta, which united all Argentines, put two sides of the same avenue on Ricardo Darin y Guillermo Francella.

The actor of Nine Queens y Argentina, 1985 he lends his voice to the documentary’s voice-over story I choose to believeand the interpreter of The clan y Married with childrenthat of Guys, the people’s movie.

The most curious thing is not that there are two films on the same topic, but that they even premiere in commercial cinemas on the same date: Thursday, December 7.

a sort of Barbenheimer local, repeating what happened on Thursday, July 20 of this year, when Barbie y Oppenheimer They coincided in their premiere on the same day.

And one film enhanced the other.

Will the same thing happen with two documentaries that have practically the same thing as their center, as their basis?

Darín and Francella worked together in the last Argentine production that won the Oscar for best foreign film, The Secret in Their Eyes, by Juan José Campanella. They are friends, and there is no need to look around this coincidence of release date, but surely eyes will be on the number of viewers each one has.

Aside from the public’s decision to choose one or the other film (why not both?), the number of theaters in which each one is released will be decisive.

I choose to believewhich is released by an independent distributor (Digicine, the same one Argentina, 1985) is expected to do so on no less than 150 screens, with a ceiling of 200.

Guys, the people’s moviewhich will be released by Disney, will surely start on 300 screens.

We tried to talk to Darín and Francella, but the effort was unsuccessful. Darín apologized, because he has many issues, projects and is on tour in Spain with the work. Scenes of conjugal life, along with Andrea Pietra. Francella is in New York, where on Monday The one in charge competes in the International Emmy Awards for best comedy, and saw our message after the note was published. “It’s just like that, hug,” summarized the actor.

Darín’s film is produced by AFA, Grupo Octubre (by Victor Santa María), with FilmSuez as associate producer, and Sandra Rojas, from Pancontents, which produced don’t break. It has its premiere confirmed in Latin America, theaters from Mexico on down. Will they do it in… Brazil?

Clarion has access to the so-called Competitive, a list in which film distributors announce the tentative dates of their releases. And watching the Competitive, Boys It had been listed for 4 months for December 14.

The date is understood: the first anniversary of obtaining the third star on the chest of the Argentine National Team jersey is December 18. I choose to believe it was also going to be released on the 14th, but they decided to bring it forward a week. Boys It also changed its release date (it was a commercial decision because it is the holiday of the 8th), and so both films will coincide on their release date.

It was this week that the AFA announced that the “official film” about the Qatar 2022 World Cup (I choose to believe) would feature, in addition to testimonies from the world champion players, with the voice-over story of Ricardo Darín. And almost at the same time it was announced that Guys, the people’s moviewill be narrated by Guillermo Francella.

Boys It is based on a story by Hernán Casciari, and will focus on the popular celebration, since it was also built from home videos made by the fans.

Apparently, no one from the production of Francella’s film knew that Ricardo Darín was going to participate in the other one, nor vice versa. Darín closed his participation about 10 days ago, and a team traveled especially to Barcelona – where he is representing Scenes of conjugal life– and in two days in which he had no function, he recorded his entire story in a studio. Darín did not know that Francella was doing the same thing, adding his voice to the story in another documentary film.

Directed by Jesús Braceras -creator of Monsoon y Barrabrava-, Boys shows, through material that is announced as “exclusive” and viral, how Argentines experienced the seven World Cup matches, plus their celebrations.

And it would have unpublished videos – provided by FIFA -, audiovisual material generated by followers of the Argentine soccer team who were unknown until now and by influencers who were in Qatar, among them Momo, Markito Navaja, Marti Benza, Fran MG, Owen Pelle, El Pabellón, Joaco Lopez, Morena Beltrán and Nico Occhiato.

“Giving my voice to this wonderful project made me relive every moment of that atypical December that will remain on our skin for eternity. Celebrating with heat, feeling how the emotion that came from each stadium was replicated in the streets, with hugs between strangers, united in a single passion and the 9th of July filled from end to end, are some of the things that will be saved forever in our memory and that are visible in this film that invites us to repeat without stopping: Beautiful anniversary, right?!” commented Guillermo Francella.

On the other hand, the National Team players were recording yesterday Friday afternoon at the concentration, at the AFA grounds in Ezeiza, the messages inviting them to watch the film I choose to believe.

Something of a stir was caused by a Tweet from Hernan Casciari, published on Thursday. “There are many people confusing our documentary «Muchachos» (with Francella) and the AFA one (which is with Darín and is called «I choose to believe»). Why are there two, why are they released on the same day? I leave you the message in an audio/text that I just published.”

A day before he tweeted “They are two different films. The AFA one is the official one. Ours is the tremendously moving one.”

The response of the Twitter country was that a crack should not be generated, that both can be seen and if there was a third, too.

We will have to see them, compare them and we will also see which one viewers from all over the country prefer.