Abstract

The purpose of this work is to analyze Argentine film director Marco Berger’s filmography paying particular attention to the subject that characterizes his work. Considering “the Berger shot” an indicator of recurring commentary in nearly all his films, the relation that this declarative mark has with the totality of the story is closely studied, making the reading of the implicit meaning that runs through his work possible. This is characterized by the questioning of the ideals found in masculinity that correlate sex, desire and gender. Stemming from an appeal to the desire of the masculine characters, the stories indicate a crack of unsuitability, abnormality, illegibility and impossibility between that emerging desire, sex and the expression of gender proper to the character by those dissident and problematic desires that films unveil.

Key Words: Masculinity | sexuality | Film | homoeroticism | Berger