Mauricio (Pepe Lorente), a Spanish rocker with some success but disillusioned with the excesses and miseries of the music world, travels in the 1990s to Argentina and more precisely to Santiago del Estero, where he discovers and is fascinated by the world of chacarera with the help of Don Carlos (Cuti Carabajal), patriarch of the mythical family.
That is the starting point of this film – very loosely inspired by the story of Mauricio Aznar, an artist from Zaragoza who had a classic rockabilly band called Más Birras – which swings between certain elements typical of musical biopics and others more typical of documentaries.
The film – awarded at its world premiere in the New Directors competition at the San Sebastian Festival and which later toured other exhibitions such as the one in Mar del Plata – achieves a certain charm in the way in which these two universes meet and recognize each other, but in the second half The blue star It falls into underlined contradictions, into overloaded melodrama, into obvious allegory and even into a certain somewhat clumsy magical realism.
Still, there are a few daring narrative quests and ideas and – above all – beautiful musical moments recorded live that make the experience quite enjoyable and at times even intense and fascinating.
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