Face 2 Face With David Peck

Pablo and I spoke about Argentina, critiques of power, finding life in death and about how film doesn’t pass judgment.   Eva Doesn’t Sleep - Film SynopsisIMDBGael García Bernal gives a supremely creepy performance in the new film from visionary Argentinean director Pablo Agüero, which tells the unbelievable true story of the transport of the embalmed body of the country’s beloved First Lady Eva Perón.The strangest thing about this story is that it’s true. With Eva Doesn’t Sleep, Argentine filmmaker Pablo Agüero takes an unbelievable chapter of his country’s history and transforms it into a deeply strange cinema experience.In 1952, Argentina’s beloved First Lady, Eva Perón, died of cancer at the age of thirty-three. A renowned embalmer was commissioned by the grieving Juan Perón to preserve her body for display, and Argentines flocked to be near “Evita.” Three years later, when his government was overthrown by a military coup, Perón fled the country before he could make arrangements for the transportation of h