Esta cajita que toco tiene boca y sabe hablar

 

The title of this documentary about the work and grace of the couplet singers from the Argentine North, comes from an old, anonymous couplet still sung today: "This little drum I'm playing / has a mouth and knows how to talk, / the only thing it lacks / are eyes to help me cry". And with this debut feature, Lorena García set out to be those eyes that, instead of helping the sadness that the verse asks for, offer themselves to replicate the value of an oral and musical tradition that expands t [...]

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