Can an Argentine animated film rival Hollywood blockbusters? Ian Mount writes about “Metegol,” a film whose success would represent the latest step toward relevance for animated features made outside the U.S.: http://nyr.kr/1dKo1no
“The question, now, is whether audiences outside of Argentina will get it. The combination of high technical quality with cultural specificity could be what makes ‘Metegol’ an international hit with a public bored of homogenized fare, or it could be its downfall; Hollywood has dominated the film world for so long that American culture is the one foreign audiences most easily absorb.”
Photograph of Juan José Campanella by Alvaro Barrientos/AP.