La Fiebre del Loco

La Fiebre del Loco
Chilean theatrical release poster
Directed by	Andrés Wood
Written by	René Arcos Gilberto Villaroel
Starring	Emilio Bardi Luis Dubó
Release date	October 2001 (2001-10)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Chile
Language	Spanish

La Fiebre del Loco^[1] (The Abalone Fever in Spanish) is a 2001 Chilean comedy film directed by Andres Wood. The film's tagline was "Amor y avaricia en un mundo de buzos y moluscos" (Spanish for: Love and greed in a world of scuba and mollusks).

Plot

The film centers on the conflicts between visiting prostitutes and fishermen's wives in a small fishing village in rural Southern Chile. The village has become obsessed with Chilean abalone^[2][3] (known as "loco" in Spanish, which has a dual meaning of both abalone and craziness). Chaos erupts when the Chilean government temporarily lifts the ban on the collection of this prized mollusk, which is believed to have aphrodisiacal effects.^[4]

Cast

• Emilio Bardi - Canuto
• Luis Dubó - Jorge
• Loreto Moyo - Sonia
• Luis Margani - Padre Luis (Father Luis)
• Tamara Acosta - Nelly
• María Izquierdo - Leila
• Mariana Loyola - Paty
• Patricia López (credited as Patricia López Menadier) - Isabel
• Carmina Riego
• Pilar Zderich - Denisse
• Aldo Parodi
• Julio Marcone - Yukio
• Cristián Chaparro
• Gabriela Medina
• Carmen Barros
• Marcela Arroyave
• Claudia Hidalgo
• Chamila Rodríguez
• Pablo Striano
• Camila Videla

Technical information

Realization and demonstration, on October 29, 2001, of the first digital cinema transmission by satellite in Europe^[5][6][7] of a feature film (La Fiebre del Loco) by Bernard Pauchon,^[8] Alain Lorentz, Raymond Melwig^[9] and Philippe Binant.^[10]

References

1. "La Fiebre del Loco". Archived from the original on 2021-04-23. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
2. (in Spanish)Muestra 'locuras' chilenas, access date August 9, 2008
3. Fiebre del loco, La at IMDb, access date August 9, 2008
4. VENICE FILM FESTIVAL : A New Wave:Movies Without Borders, by Roderick Conway Morris, International Herald Tribune, August 29, 2002, access date August 9, 2008
5. France Télécom, Commission Supérieure Technique de l'Image et du Son, Communiqué de presse, Paris, October 29th, 2001.
6. "«Numérique : le cinéma en mutation», Projections, 13, CNC, Paris, September 2004, p. 7" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-05-15. Retrieved 2013-01-18.
7. Olivier Bomsel, Gilles Le Blanc, Dernier tango argentique. Le cinéma face à la numérisation, Ecole des Mines de Paris, 2002, p. 12.
8. Bernard Pauchon, France Telecom and digital cinema, ShowEast, 2001, p. 10.
9. Alexandru Georgescu (et al.), Critical Space Infrastructures. Risk, Resilience and Complexity, Springer, 2019, p. 48.
10. "Première numérique pour le cinéma français, 01net, 2002". Archived from the original on 2021-04-23. Retrieved 2011-11-14.

External links

• La Fiebre del Loco Fever at IMDb