{{AI-generated|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = A Certain Regard | image = Juan José Sebreli.JPG | caption = Juan José Sebreli | director = Eduardo Montes-Bradley | producer = Contrakultura Films | writer = Eduardo Montes-Bradley | released = {{Film date|2004}} | runtime = 80 minutes | country = Argentina | language = Spanish }}
'''A Certain Regard''' (Spanish: ''Una cierta mirada'') is a 2005 Argentine documentary film directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. The film centers on Juan José Sebreli, an influential Argentine sociologist, essayist, and public intellectual. A co-founder of the Frente de Liberación Homosexual (Gay Liberation Front) in Argentina, Sebreli narrates his life and ideas in a reflective monologue that interweaves cultural critique with personal history.<ref>Roca, Pilar: Juan José Sebreli: La mirada de la alienación. Las vidas paralelas de Montes-Bradley, p. 53-54-55 [https://www.academia.edu/19832315/Las_vidas_paralelas_de_Montes_Bradley_Ensayo_crítico]</ref>
The documentary was produced with support from Argentina's Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA) and the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, and has been screened at film festivals and on public television. It is included in academic collections and is used in Latin American studies curricula. The film is catalogued by WorldCat<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/title/817238595 WorldCat entry for ''Una cierta mirada'']</ref> and is available through distributors including Alexander Street Press.<ref>[https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/una-cierta-mirada Alexander Street streaming platform]</ref>
== Synopsis == Set in Buenos Aires, ''A Certain Regard'' is structured around Sebreli’s reflections on politics, architecture, literature, and memory. Born in 1930, he offers a personal and generational testimony spanning from Argentina’s first military coup through its cultural upheavals of the 20th century. Raised in a working-class family in the Constitución neighborhood, Sebreli revisits the physical and ideological transformations of the city and its people.<ref>Una cierta mirada – Ideografía de Juan José Sebreli (2004). Foco Montes-Bradley [https://gpsaudiovisual.com/2021/03/23/foco-montes-bradley-films-ineditos-y-retrospectiva-de-eduardo-montes-bradley-online-y-gratis-en-forma-exclusiva-en-gps-audiovisual-desde-el-1-de-abril/]</ref><ref>Diario Clarin. Retrospectiva de Eduardo Montes-Bradley: documentales de Norte a Sur en el Teatro San Martin.[https://www.clarin.com/revista-n/escenarios/retrospectiva-eduardo-montes-bradley-sala-lugones-san-martin_0_iJWWpQt4.html?srsltid=AfmBOorXnXp8LxyqA_VHmN68LzcxRhrqyl3nw7f9j72nryQfCwHb7tNr]</ref>
== Themes == The documentary explores: * The intersections of intellectual life and political resistance in Argentina. * Urban memory and the transformation * Revista Contorno <ref>Crítica del lenguaje y emancipación política en Contorno (1953-1959)[Cuadernos del CILHA versión On-line ISSN 1852-9615 Cuad. CILHA vol.18 no.1 Mendoza jun. 2017]</ref>
== See also == * LGBT rights in Argentina * Frente de Liberación Homosexual
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