FRENCHY

EL FRANCESITO UN DOCUMENTAL (IM)POSIBLE SOBRE ENRIQUE PICHON RIVIERE

By Miguel Luis KOHAN

K FILMS PRODUCCIONES - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2016

Argentina is one of the countries in the world with more
psychoanalysts per habitant. Kohan investigates how Enrique Pichon Rivière became one of the responsible of introducing psychoanalysis and social psychology, having grown up in an aboriginal context.

Festivals
& Awards

BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2016
panorama
40 mostra de sao paulo 2016
competencia internacional
premio sur 2016
mejor documental del año
Ventana Sur 2017
Video Library
premio platino 2017
finalista-mejor documental iberoamericano
FICSUR 2017
mejor director de documental, mejor sonido, mejor dirección de arte
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 84 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Miguel Luis KOHAN
    • Writer(s)
    • Miguel KOHAN, Ines DE OLIVEIRA CEZAR
    • Producer(s)
    • Nicolas BATTLE
    • Synopsis
    • There wouldn’t be so many Woody Allen fans in Argentina if it weren’t for Enrique Pichon-Rivière. The Little Frenchman, as his friends called him, anchored the roots of psychoanalysis in order for them to grow like giant trees that offer couches instead of fruit. The psychiatrist and psychoanalyst grew up in the Chaco jungle, among the puma spots and sharp alligator teeth. His friends and relatives say that his wild childhood was the crayon that sketched his career path, the concrete with which he built his obsession for deciphering madness. Kohan interviews colleagues, relatives and admirers of Pichon-Rivière’s work in order to turn the monument into a human being. Through different anecdotes, the director knits a celluloid sweater that keeps you warm and itches at the same time. That is, in short, what psychoanalysis does