Rating: PG13
Genre: Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 05/07/2004(USA
Release Date: 10/12/2004
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: Espanol
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 83 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Watch With Your Kids, Scary Moments
Distributor/Studio: Miramax

Venerable Argentinian filmmaker Alejandro Agresti turns his lens to his own childhood in this nostalgic coming-of-age tale. Set in the director's hometown of Buenos Aires circa 1964, Valentin centers around its title character (and ostensible stand-in for the director), a nine-year-old boy (Rodrigo Noya) whose feuding parents have left him to be raised by his sage, eccentric grandmother (Carmen Maura). With his father (Agresti) visiting only occasionally, Valentin is left to look to the other men in the neighborhood for father figures, and to replace his absent mother, he warms to Leticia (Julieta Cardinali), one of his father's many short-term girlfriends. When he tells her personal secrets about his father, however, Valentin jeopardizes their relationship.

~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Rodrigo Noya - Valentin
Carmen Maura -
Alejandro Agresti - Valentin's Father
Julieta Cardinali - Leticia

Production:
Alejandro Agresti - Director
Laurens Geels Thierry Forte - Producer
Paul M. van Bruggen - Composer
Alejandro Brodersohn - Editor
Alejandro Agresti - Screen Writer
Floris Vos - Production Designer
Fernando Soldeville - Sound/Sound Designer
Jose Luis Cajaraville - Cinematographer

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