''Raul The Terrible'' is a 2006 Australian documentary film created by David Bradbury. It is a study of

Raúl Castells Raúl Castells (born 1950 in Rosario) is a controversial Argentine political activist. He was the leader of an organization called the (in Spanish: ''Movimiento Independiente de Jubilados y Desocupados'', MIJD), a '' piquetero'' group. In 2021, h ...

. Bradbury and his team had close access to him for a period of three months and then filmed for a second period when Castells was engaged in a hunger strike. It was Ettinger-Epstein debut film and stemmed from a chance meeting at the Matthew Talbot refuge in Woolloomooloo after which she saw his photographs.

Reception

Doug Anderson of the Sydney Morning Herald wrote "Not terribly well compiled but worthy as all get-out" Newcastle Herald's Kylie Cooper says in her capsule review "this warts-and-all portrait of a man driven to change his world, provides an insight into the politics of poverty in twenty-first century Argentina." Also with a capsule review the Age's Paul Kalina said "Veteran Australia filmmaker David Bradbury casts a wryly humorous eye on Argentine dissident Raul Castells in this warts-and-all portrait of a flawed revolutionary and once affluent nation in economic ruins."

Awards

2006 Australian Film Institute Awards The 48th Annual Australian Film Institute Awards ceremony, honouring the best in Australian cinema and television of 2006, took place on 6 and 7 December 2006 at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre and was broadcast on the Nine Network. The main a ...

** Best Direction in a Documentary - David Bradbury - won ** Best Editing in a Non-Feature Film - Stewart Young - won ** Best Documentary - Carlos Alperin - nominated

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Raul The Terrible 2002 films 2002 documentary films Australian documentary films 2000s English-language films