Railway and Arts: Retiro Station. Buenos Aires.

dijous, 11 de juliol del 2013

Retiro Station. Buenos Aires.

Retiro Station in Buenos Aires belongs to Argentinian national heritage. It was used in some scenes of the film The Secret in Their Eyes (2009, El secreto de sus ojos) directed by Juan José Campanella following a screenplay based on the novel The Question of their eyes (2005, La pregunta de sus ojos) by Eduardo Sacheri. The station is the localization of endless waits of the victim's husband in order to find the murderer, the travels of main caracter and the perfect and emotive farewell scene on the platform. The scene can be seen on Youtube.
The film, which won the Oscar for best foreign film 2010, used as a stage the central nave, in which a train was maked up to 1974 liverie, and the lobby, that was tricked to the appearance of the year of the action.

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Railway and Arts

Since its inception, the railroad has kept the interest of the artists. John C. Bourne represented in his prints and drawings the enormous engineering work of the first British lines and painters such as Gustave Caillebotte or Dario Regoyos captured in their canvas European landscape transformed by the new method of transportation. The novelists, from Tolstoy to Zola, from Dickens to Oller, used the railroad as a setting in their works. The poets, such as William Wordsworth and Melchor de Palau, glossed the changes that the railroad caused in lives and property. The cinema, from its first frames, took it as a stage and protagonist. The music has found in the rattle of the train the basis for their workers popular songs, the patterns of Winton Marsalis jazz and the basis for the symphonic works by Arthur Honegger. The illustration and poster have produced memorable works to promote certain routes. This tradition has not been broken, survives in graphic novels, movies, sculptures and railway themed poster and, more recently, in electronic art and video games. All that is the subject of this blog.