Director, writer and screenwriter. He studied film at Escuela Panamericana de Arte in Buenos Aires, 1981. He moved to the United States and studied directing at NYU. In film, he has worked as a direction asistant in Argentina and in Italy as a film editing asistant at the Cinecittà studios. As a writer, he has published several books which include Rapado, Velcro y yo and Tres Cuentos. Rejtman is a key name in the renovation of argentininan cinema, he build peculiar poetic and style in two medium lenght films, Doli vuelve a casa and Entrenamiento elemental para actores, a documentary, Copacabana, and four fiction feature films, Rapado, Silvia Pirero, Los guantes mágicos and Dos Disparos. Any fragment of Silvia Prieto or Dos disparos or Los guantes mágicos contain the coordenates of his cinematic universe.
Rejtman cinematic way are irrefutably irrevocable: in just a few minutes he imposes, with clarity, his directing personality. Rejtman is an obsevie filmmaker and also and obsesive writer. The elements that he brings to the table, in film as well as in literature, are controled, and he masters them wholy. The "Rejtman touch" , perhaps, consists of making an everlasting moving cinema, which appears to regenaret time and time again from a place of aparent tranquility. The shooter might be a person who is called like any other, a little doll, and old car, a bag, a motorcycle.
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