According to the official description, the documentary Lamb and the fable of the scorpion “It is the eternal return of a man slave to his own nature, of an artist who lives to build a work that gives him the feeling of being complete and, when he reaches it, inevitably transforms it into failure. A failure that allows him to hit the road again to demonstrate that he is once again capable of success. The film studies the consequences that the decisions of Gustavo Cordera (former singer of Bersuit Vergarabat) have for his family and those closest to him. And he also poses the main dilemmas of his life today: Can his wife and children understand or forgive the destruction? How many times can an artist succeed and fail, reinvent himself in new success and destroy it again? “
The film portrays Gustavo Edgardo Cordera (59), the ex-singer of the group Bersuit Vergarabat, one of the most important Argentine alternative rock groups of the first decade of the century and in which he remained an active member from his early days in 1988 until his tumultuous departure in 2009. With the group, he released 9 albums, among which hits such as: La Bolsa, La argentinidad al palo, Se comes, Yo tome, Mi caramel, Sr. Cobranza (original from Las Manos de Filippi), the latter being his most popular single.
After leaving Bersuit, Gustavo Cordera moved with his whole family to La Paloma, Uruguay, where he formed the group La Caravana Mágica, “a group that fuses current electronic sounds such as cumbia, Latin American music and Rio de la Plata, with the energy of rock ”and with which he released 5 albums.
Gustavo Cordera (ex-singer of Bersuit Vergarabat) in the documentary film Cordera, the fable of the scorpion.
El Pelado Cordera has always been a controversial figure and has had several public fights with various colleagues such as Carlos “El Indio” Solari and Andrés Calamaro, among others. However, its darkest episode came on August 8, 2016, when, as part of a mock lecture at a journalism workshop at TEAArte (a graduate college), Cordera was asked what was his opinion. on accusations of sexual abuse by some of his fellow musicians, to which Cordera replied: “There are women who need to be raped, because they are hysterical, because they psychologically need it and because that they are guilty and do not want to have free sex. They want to play this. I don’t like to play this, but there are people who do. We human beings are very complex ”.
Cordera’s words shouldn’t have been made public as these types of sessions take place behind closed doors, however, the commentary was of such magnitude that one of the students in attendance decided to break the protocol of the presentation (though she can be called that) and shared the audio of the old Bersuit on the networks, unleashing outrage from various sectors of Argentine and Latin American society.
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The consequences for the musician were immediate and he had to cancel several concerts, and withdraw from the stage for a while. Also due to this episode, he had to face a criminal complaint, which he luckily was able to leave after publicly apologizing and carrying out different activities to compensate for the damage, which ultimately allowed him to regain his career. artistic.
Although the film was due for release in 2017, it will be on March 21 of this year, when the documentary directed by Uruguayan Federicos Lemos hits theaters. The film will tell the story of a very charismatic and controversial character like Gustavo Cordera, beyond Bersuit Vergarabat.
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