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GOYO

Argentina, 2024, 106 minutes, Colour.

Nicolas Furtado, Nancy Duplaa, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Diego Alonso, Cecilia Roth.

Directed by Marcos Carnevale.

Goyo, short for Gregorio, is an Argentinian man who has Asperger’s Syndrome. In fact, there have been quite a number of films about children and adults on the spectrum. It is worth googling movies about Asperger’s Syndrome and see the significant number of films, many of them well-known.

Goyo has a sad past history, his father killed in the drink-driving accident, his mother abandoning him. He lives with his sister, strict, snobbish, a concert pianist, and with his more genial brother who is a chef. The sister tries to protect him. His brother is a great support and friend.

But Goyo has a PhD, is an expert in art, and is a guide at the Museum. He is very knowledgeable, exact in his references to times and dates and other aspects of the spectrum. Nicolas Furtado gives a strong performance as Goyo. Nancy Duplaa is very sympathetic as the older woman.

The screenplay focuses on issues of sexuality and relationships. Goyo is infatuated with an older woman whom he sees struggling in the rain with an umbrella, sees her working at the Museum, follows her, which she interprets as a stalking, but with the help of words given to him by his brother, he approaches her, apologises, and the situation is rectified. The woman herself has a violent husband just getting out of prison, two sons.

While the focus is on the woman and her age and response to the relationship, the focus is very much on Goyo and issues of sexuality, his adult longings, his encyclopedic study of pornography, the encounter with the woman and its consequences. With the pressures from his family and a violent confrontation with the woman’s husband, he becomes a confused, almost being killed by traffic in the street.

The film evokes audience sympathy for Goyo, offers the audience an opportunity to understand him in the way deaths of thinking and feeling by those with Asperger’s Syndrome..

1. Goyo, Gregorio, the focus of the film, character, Personality, Spectrum, Asperges?
2. Setting in Argentina, universal story? Audience interest in the theme, characters on the spectrum, the increase of diagnosis of autism and the spectrum?
3. Nicolas Furtado and his performance as Goyo? His place in the family, the death of his father when he was young, drunk, his mother and her drinking, the driving, the accident? His mother withdrawing, not knowing how to relate to her son? At home with his stepsister and her strictness, at home with his stepbrother and his kindness? The routines at home, the meals, discussions? Being protective of Goyo?
4. Goyo and his education, his PhD, knowledge of art history? Encyclopedic knowledge, precision of expression, accuracy of dates, dates times and places, his love of art, his room and the paintings, van Gogh, his own painting, imagining people as centres of paintings? His imagination, whirling images?
5. His work at the Gallery, friendship with the staff, their understanding him, his tours and explanations for the visitors? His glimpse of Eva, his referring to her by her full name? The attraction, seeing her in the rain and frustration with the umbrella? At the Gallery? The subway, her anxiety in the train, the train stopping, the blackout, his fall, panic attack, leaving the train, on the platform, her giving him the finger? And his research online to understand the meaning of giving the finger?
6. Saula and her skill as a musician, music practice, older, controlling Goyo? Matute, younger, work as a chef, the meals at home, listening to Goyo, giving him advice, the speech to make to Either? At the hospital, her being apprehensive, the explanations, her response?
7. Eva and her home life, her husband in jail, the violence, the older son and his surliness, football, staying with his girlfriend, yet returning to support his mother? The younger boy, friendly, encountering Goyo, the bonding, the talk, welcoming him to the home?
8. Goyo, the invitation to Eva, going out, the conversation, awkward, her response, being affirmed, drinking, the dancing, the return home, the sexual encounter, the aftermath, for Goyo, for Eva, the discussions?
9. Audience response to his being on the spectrum, his manner, his friendliness? Making allowances? His concern about sexual issues, looking at the pornography, the range and encyclopedic response? The personal issues, the moral issues, his reflections? Matute and his advice?
10. This purges and emotions, the effect of the relationship, at the football matches and his feeling that his brother was ignoring him?
11. The continued relationship, going to his sister’s performance, her demands, judgements on Eva, the impact on Goyo, bewilderment, going to the street, the swirling vision, hospital?
12. The sister and the discussions at the hospital with Eva, the rash judgement?
13. Goya, seeking out Eva’s husband, the confrontation at the market, the violence?
14. The family, leaving Goyo to make his own decisions? Eva and her response, love, despite the age difference, the emotional difference?

INSEPARABLES

Argentina, 2016, 108 minutes, Colour.

Oscar Martinez, Roderigo de la Serna, Alejandro Flechner, Carla Peterson.

Directed by Marcos Carnevale.

This film was based on an original story, the care for a wealthy quadriplegic ‘n is French-Algerian carer. Originally, there was a documentary, 2003,A la vie, a la mort.

However, the story became a worldwide celebration with the French version of the film, Les Intouchables, many nominations many awards, including the best actor for Omar Sy. He played the carer and veteran French actor, François Cluezet, played the quadriplegic. The two actors work very well off each other, the comedy, the serious aspects, the interdependence.

There have been a number of remakes, an Indian version, Oopari, an American version, The Upside, with Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston as the two, and with Nicole Kidman. The present film is the Argentinian version, the same story but with a strong Latin flavour.

Veteran actor, Oscar Martinez, plays Felipe, the quadriplegic, often very serious, but with very many sequences of him grinning and laughing. The carer, this time an Argentinian, with a background of bank robbery and prison, is played by Roderigo do la Serna (the associate of Che Guevara in The Motorcycle Diaries, and, surprisingly after seeing him here, playing the young Jorge Bergoglio, and Pope Francis, in the 2016 drama of his life, They Call me Francis.)

The film follows the original in some detail, the crankiness of the quadriplegic and his search for carers, his whim in taking on the carer, here called Tito, listening to his views of music in his frankness and demands, teaching him something about art and personal response, a sequence with chamber music in a wide range of classics and Tito’s response to their application but his turning the occasion into a Latin rumba, the chamber Orchestra joining in.

Key to the film are Felipe’s loyal assistant and secretary, Yvonne, the gardener, and the secretary, Veronica, who becomes the subject of Tito’s amorous attentions – but who thwarts him at the end with her personal relationships.

Each version had a touch of the rowdy, especially through the characters who played the carer. At first, some audiences might find Tito rather irritating but, in his attention to Felipe, the bond between them, some comic sequences, he becomes more likeable.

1. Based on a true story, the original documentary, the original French film, Intouchables, the American remake, Upside, the Indian remake, Oopari? Comparisons?
2. The true story of the quadriplegic wealthy man, Felipe, his need for an assistant, his observations of Tito, Tito is feisty with the gardener, feisty about his pay, Felipe liking him, offering him the job?
3. The character of Felipe, background, accident, widower, his daughter and her wilfulness and problems, quadriplegic, confined to his chair, in need of help, Yvonne as his loyal assistant, members of the household, the gardener, Veronica?
4. The character of Tito, background, robbery, jail, his mother and her criticisms, his visit, her ousting him, the glimpse of the rest of the family? Getting a job, concerned about money? Carefree attitudes, the true story of his parents, his mother’s death, his aunt bring him up, his younger brother and his criminal life? Drugs? Lack of responsibility?
5. The opening, the speed, the police, the bets, to hospital, the joke? The flashback?
6. Felipe and the effect of having Tito, humour, continually laughing, the correspondence with the attractive woman, the photo, her cards, the date and its awkwardness? The domestic scenes, the bath, clothing…? Felipe and his dependence? Tito, the response, friendship, jokey, making Felipe laugh? The scenes about the paintings and their costs, his criticism, the $11,000? The musical evening, the range of chamber music, Tito and his comments about what each evoked, his taking over with the rumba music, the dancing, the chamber orchestra joining in?
7. Tito and his flirting with Veronica, the scenes between them, his asking Eve on about Veronica talking? And the final revelation of Veronica and her relationship?
8. Tito, likeable, Felipe liking him, but wanting him to have a further career, letting him go, the interviews with the prospective carers, their behaviour, inadequacies, his nightmares, waking, Yvonne helping, Tito returning?
9. Tito in the setting up of the beach, the date?
10. Tito and his brother, care, telling the truth to Felipe? Helping the family?
11. A cheerful look at a serious subject?