Obituary: Hector Babenco, director whose tale of two men pushed the frontiers of film

24 July 2016 - 02:00

By The Daily Telegraph

Hector Babenco, who has died aged 70, was best known for the film Kiss of the Spider Woman, for which in 1985 he became the first Latin American director to be Oscar-nominated.

Based on Manuel Puig's novel set in the "dirty war" of repression in Babenco's native Argentina, the film confounded many conventions of cinema.

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