Carlos Sorin’s film “El gato desaparece”, competing in the 33rd
International Festival of Latin American Cinema of Havana, in the category
of fiction films, shows that its producer does know how to tell a story.
 
On this occasion Sorin, who has produced movies such as “La pelicula del
rey” and “Historias minimas”, presented a suspense as an homage to great
Alfred Hitchcock keeping intact his sensitivity and eagerness to get
inside the human being.
 
The film is about a university professor who returns home after having
been discharged from a psychiatric hospital, which brings about lot of
mystery as his wife is fearful of a possible setback.
 
The movie is full of suspense since the moment Luis gets home, which
gradually increases with the disappearance of a house cat and his
behavior, and thus fostering Beatriz’ suspicions on her husband’s way of
acting.
 
A simple and suggestive script complements scenes, which are full of drama
and had an excellent artistic direction by Margarita Jusid.
 
Music and performances, especially by Beatriz Splezini and Luis Luque,
played an outstanding role throughout the film; as well as the performance
of two well-known Argentinean figures: Maria Abadi and Norma Argentina. 
 
Carlos Sorin, author of intimate and straightforward pieces that get
inside the human being such as “La ventana”, successfully moves around the
genre of suspense with “El gato desaparece”, a story that keeps the public
in tension right until the end.
 
Sorin told Argentinean press media that he came up with this idea for a
script from a real story that caught his attention.
 
“An engineer living an ordinary life, somehow related with the arts,
starts to behave in strange manners during summer vacations at the coast,
and later on develops a very violent psychotic behavior.
 
That story caught my attention because it is about the weaknesses of the
human beings”, said Sorin, a film-maker that explores the human soul in
his work, including this film that credits him as one of the most valuable
producers of Latin American cinema.