The movie Un buen día premiered in 2010 and lasted only one week in theaters. Critics slammed it and considered it, hands down, the worst movie in Argentine film history. Years later, however, a group of fervent fans rescued it from oblivion, turning it into a cult movie and a seminal part of Argentina’s pop culture.
If you’ve never seen it, you’re in luck, as three Buenos Aires art-house film venues will be honoring the biggest blunder in Argentine film production all through June. You also have the chance to check out a documentary about the film and its fandom that is driving the current revival: Después de un buen día, crafted by Néstor Frenkel, one of the best local directors of the genre.
The Buenos Aires Museum of Latin American Art is screening both the film and the documentary, while the San Martin Cultural Center is playing the film together with a retrospective of Nestor Frenkel’s work. The cinephile cherry on top is the special 35mm film screening of Un buen día at the Buenos Aires Film Museum, with one single show on Saturday, June 15 at 6........